· 8 June 2008 | 230 words
Abba Anthony said: Whoever sits in solitude and is quiet has escaped from three wars: those of hearing, speaking, and seeing. Then there is only one war left in which to fight, and that is the battle for your...
· 7 June 2008 | 36 words
love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun more last than star -- E.E. Cummings...
· 4 June 2008 | 28 words
Silence is-- the song of God, singing to every one and every thing to be, being, to be witness, with-ness, to each other, and to be with God....
· 3 June 2008 | 692 words
In a narrative essay titled "Teaching a Stone to Talk" (found in the book by the same name), the author Annie DIllard describes an eccentric man trying to teach a stone how to talk. Several times a day, he removes...
· 18 March 2008 | 251 words
From Br. Joseph -- This is the sixth reflection on seven signposts for the season of Lent (and for all seasons). Pray always. Prays always; if necessary, use words. Our words in prayer are very important, be them words of...
· 28 January 2008 | 608 words
Near the end of the film Into Great Silence (technically it is a film, but it is something more), there is an interview with an old, blind monk. The years of solitude do not wear heavy on him. He is...
· 25 December 2007 | 68 words
If a tree falls, it makes a lot of noise; but if a thousand flowers bloom, it happens in the greatest of silence. -- Fr. Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Something to ponder this Christmas day... Wake me up Father so...
· 16 November 2007 | 35 words
Leave me here freely all alone, In cell were sunlight never shone, Should no one ever speak to me, This golden silence sets me free! -- Blessed Titus Brandsma, portion of poem written in Dachau...
· 25 August 2007 | 439 words
Reality is flowing. This does not mean that everything moves, changes, becomes. Science and common experience tell us that. It means that movement, change, becoming is everything that there is. There is nothing else; everything is movement, is change....
· 3 June 2007 | 47 words
Silence asserts not. It is simple nothingness Around every sound. Like God, silence waits To be heard among the thoughts. It never changes. Not to soothe with balm, Silence calls to stimulate, To notice no-thing. The song of silence Teaches...
Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us