• A Positive Stillness

  Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jul 30, 2011 (message contributor)

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  Scripture:  Ephesians 3:4

  Tags:  Disciplines Silence

  Denomination: Catholic

A POSITIVE STILLNESS

"The greater mystery, surpassing all words, summons us to silence. It must, of course, be a silence with content, not just the absence of speech and action. We should expect the liturgy to give us a positive stillness that will restore us. Such stillness will not be just a pause, in which a thousand thoughts and desires assault us, but a time of recollection, giving us an inward peace, allowing us to draw breath and rediscover the one thing necessary, which we have forgotten."

[The Spirit of the Liturgy (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2000), 209.]