⭐ Advance Praise and Reviews ⭐

  Clare of Assisi: A Heart Full of Love explores Clare’s deep desire to live the gospel life, more precisely, her desire for all of us to reflect on Christ and his crucifixion in order to see our own strengths and weaknesses, and most importantly, our capacity to love. Ilia Delio illustrates how Clare, through her life, her writings, letters, prayer and example, is truly a mystic who helped generations of Catholics clearly see how Christ took on human flesh, not just to suffer and die for us, but to help us all in turn reflect back the face of Christ to the world.

Clare was not simply a follower of Francis; she was a formidable, resolute, devout and loving saint whose life centered on this essence of human identity—Christ is in each of us—and who sought to teach us to just be ourselves and to let God dwell within us. In Clare of Assisi: A Heart Full of Love, Ilia Delio shows us just how Clare’s simple but powerful beliefs transformed the way we all think about Christ—even today.

Ilia Delio, a Franciscan Sister of Washington, D.C., is retired Professor of Villanova University, and founder and Executive Director of the World Institute for Science, Religion and Culture. Her many books include Compassion: Living in the Spirit of St. Francis, The Not-Yet God: Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin and the Relational Whole, and The Christian Mutation: Reclaiming the Dynamic God of Jesus, The Unbearable Wholeness of Being, all from Orbis Books.