perhaps our most embarrassing lack
taize
Brother Roger took James' words of being "quick to listen, slow to speak" and established an entire sacred space around them. Taize is a Catholic retreat center in southern France where pilgrims, both Catholic and Protestant, seek a quieter, more devotedly prayerful refuge. Brother Roger was killed two weeks ago by a deranged woman. His desire to make capacious room for prayer is not thwarted though.
Why do we find lingering silence so unnerving? Why, when we gather in groups to pray do we feel the need to either cut short or fill up the moments of "nothing?"
posted by Patrick Lafferty @ 7:09 AM
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Indeed, Seth, there are innumerable kinds of praying. Perhaps we're in an age where our best praying will come out of extended periods of silence. The contemplative life has been monopolized recently by the eastern religions, to our shame (we're ashaemd not because they have it and we don't, but that our capacity to dialogue with them and to express our faith in the supremacy of Christ might very well emerge from appealing to the quiet to find His voice, to find our voice from Him....)
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