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After silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
~ Aldous Huxley Read more [...]
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American culture devalues silence. “Be quiet!” “Shut up!” “Children are meant to be seen, not heard,” all belie an underlying antipathy toward silence. Public and parochial schools offer courses in speech and communication. Read more [...]
Incarnation as Compassionate Solidarity
From Advent 2009:
The gospel of God is not so much that God comes to save us but that God saves us by coming to us, by coming and being with us as one of us. God’s saving presence is manifested and accomplished not by the Divine waving a magic celestial Read more [...]
Advent: Silence, Simplicity, & Spaciousness
Advent is a season of simplicity and spaciousness. The biblical narratives of this season involve simple people doing simple things. And yet, it is in the simplicity that room is made for that which is extraordinary. Simplicity, as Thoreau knew so Read more [...]
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When the Nazis came to get the Communists, I was silent, because I was not a Communist. When they came to get the Socialists, I was silent. When they came to get the Catholics, I was silent. When they came to get the Jews, I was silent. And when they Read more [...]
A Word to the Wise — Silence
Silence [sahy-luh ns]
I’ve been listening to the audio version of Thich Nhat Hanh’s book Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise. I’m also watching too many Presidential Primary debates. As a result --
This week’s word is silence.[1]
It Read more [...]
Listening Loudly: The Doorway to Delight
◊ Listening to the Excitement (continued)
If things created are so full of loveliness, how resplendent with beauty must be the One who made them!
~ St. Anthony of Padua
If we leave our assumptions and measuring sticks for what is meaningful behind, Read more [...]
The Antiphons
• antiphon
from Medieval Latin antiphōna responsive singing < Greek ( tà ) antíphōna, neuter plural of antíphōnos sounding in answer •
• in Roman Catholic liturgical music, chant melody and text sung before and after a psalm verse, originally Read more [...]
A Listening Heart
In the silence, God invites and encourages us -- because courage is what it takes -- to be freely ourselves and to allow God to be freely God and not the prisoner of our inheritance, the product of our own private invention, or the possession of our presumption. Read more [...]
Listen Loudly
Sound is the voice of the Created.
Silence is the voice of the Creator.
Listen loudly. Speak in whispers.
-~ author unknown
Because our theme this year is LISTEN LOUDLY, it is necessarily a year of entering into the silence. Silence is not absolutely Read more [...]