Lent 2024 – Week Four Reflection

Words of Wisdom

“Without some degree of inner and even outer silence, we are never living, never tasting the moment. The opposite of contemplation is not action; it is a reaction. We must wait for pure action, which proceeds from deep silence.

Silence needs to be understood in a larger way than simply a lack of audible noise. Whenever emptiness—what seems like empty space or absence of sound—becomes its own kind of fullness with its own kind of sweet voice, we have just experienced sacred silence.

Richard Rohr, OFM