
Jesus Has the Right to Remain Silent – Personal Prayer During Times of Discernment
“We share our heart with Him, but sometimes He will not speak. He sits with us and allows the Holy Spirit to work in our interior, unperceived..” – Christine Hanus
“We share our heart with Him, but sometimes He will not speak. He sits with us and allows the Holy Spirit to work in our interior, unperceived..” – Christine Hanus
“The deepest and most beautiful pathway of prayer is opened up in the Triduum. Each liturgy opens into an even deeper silence in the fullness of God.” – Anthony Lilles
“In Knock, Ireland the Mother of God appeared in a simple but profound way…In her silence, she said so much.” – Thomas Griffin
“You are never alone in the silence.” – Debra Black
“The sacred has a certain structure – it is structured out of and into silence in a manner that evokes awe and reverence.” – Dr. Anthony Lilles
In the Nativity of the Lord, the cries of the world, the cries of the human heart, and the cries of God coincide. These shared
The third part of a series on Benedictine Spirituality with Fr. Boniface Hicks.
The second part of a series on Benedictine Spirituality with Fr. Boniface Hicks.
Part I of a series on Benedictine Spirituality explores our need to cultivate silence and listening.
“The silence of prayer is a surrendering of our own words and the noise surrounding us so that something far fuller can rush in – so that we can be “filled with all the fullness of God” (Eph 3:19). So that the creative, powerful and eternally self-donating Word, the one Word that matters, the eloquent Word that contains perfectly within it all our poor scattered syllables of truth, can be spoken. And in speaking, transform us within that silence to be a little bit more like Him. In speaking, reduce our interior and exterior storms to obedient breezes.”
Claire Dwyer reflects on the necessity of silence in the spiritual life.