“When we reject our relatedness to the poor, the weak, the simple and the unlovable we define the family of creation over and against God. \u00a0In place of God we decide who is worthy of our attention and who can be rejected. \u00a0Because of our deep fears, we spend time, attention, and money on preserving our boundaries of privacy and increasing our knowledge and power. \u00a0We hermetically seal ourselves off from the undesired ‘other’, the stranger, and in doing so, we seal ourselves off from God. \u00a0By rejecting God in the neighbor, we reject the love that can heal us.” \u00a0Fr. Ilia Delio<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“When we reject our relatedness to the poor, the weak, the simple and the unlovable we define the family of creation over and against God. \u00a0In place of God we decide who is worthy of our attention and who can be rejected. \u00a0Because of our deep fears, we spend time, attention, and money on preserving […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-daily-quote","7":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\n