Listen to the Silence

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We must learn at times to stop and listen to the silence, to savor it and be awed by it, becoming like a chalice to receive it. This might happen during a calm moment at home or alone in a room, in a church that stands open in a city or during a walk in the woods. It might be in the Gospel which we must try to read every day, in a psalm, in a text or in a word that touches our heart and transfixes us: then we go no further, we pause in silent, at times overwhelming anticipation…

Clement, Olivier. Three Prayer. SVS Press 2000

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