Life-Line

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Daniel J. Miller

Today's Life-Line is: 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

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

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

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

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 [...]

Life-Line

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

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

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Daniel J. Miller

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

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

◊ 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

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

• 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

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

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

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Daniel J. Miller

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 [...]

Silence & Simplicity: On the Way to Solidarity

Posted on December 15, 2009 by Daniel J. Miller

Thomas Merton maintains that our salvation lies in silence because the way God chooses to be involves self-communicating love. This means not just that God communicates love but more so that the love God communicates is God’s very self, is God. So Read more [...]

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Tag Archives: Silence

Life-Line

Incarnation as Compassionate Solidarity

Advent: Silence, Simplicity, & Spaciousness

Life-Line

A Word to the Wise — Silence

Listening Loudly: The Doorway to Delight

The Antiphons

A Listening Heart

Listen Loudly

Silence & Simplicity: On the Way to Solidarity