{"id":7331,"date":"2011-05-20T01:01:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T05:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=7331"},"modified":"2011-05-20T06:14:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T10:14:58","slug":"experience-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2011\/05\/20\/experience-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Experience Silence!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hey guys, peace and goodness!<\/p>\n

One of the biggest\u00a0mistakes\u00a0we commit,\u00a0today,\u00a0with regard\u00a0to\u00a0Following\u00a0Christ\u00a0and\u00a0even\u00a0the\u00a0exercise\u00a0of\u00a0anyrole\u00a0is\u00a0not knowing\u00a0silence.<\/p>\n

Have you ever\u00a0stopped\u00a0to\u00a0think\u00a0how\u00a0easily\u00a0we lose\u00a0concentration?\u00a0Any\u00a0noise, however\u00a0simple\u00a0it may be,\u00a0takes away\u00a0our focus,\u00a0draws\u00a0our\u00a0attention\u00a0and\u00a0distracts\u00a0us from the\u00a0goal.<\/p>\n

Were not this natural tendency enough, the\u00a0world\u00a0has also\u00a0added to this, because\u00a0everything\u00a0is very “noisy”:\u00a0the\u00a0music,\u00a0the\u00a0cars, the street.\u00a0We cannot\u00a0“hear the silence”\u00a0we do not hear\u00a0the voice of\u00a0nature,\u00a0we do not hear\u00a0even ourselves or the\u00a0brother who\u00a0is\u00a0on our side,\u00a0who lives with us,\u00a0who\u00a0works\u00a0in the same department,\u00a0and\u00a0even more:\u00a0we do not hear\u00a0God’s voice\u00a0who\u00a0speaks\u00a0in\u00a0silence.<\/strong>Have you ever noticed\u00a0that\u00a0when\u00a0we got\u00a0home\u00a0the\u00a0first\u00a0thing\u00a0we do is\u00a0turn on\u00a0the TVor\u00a0stereo?<\/p>\n

Unless we know\u00a0silence,\u00a0We can not\u00a0listen to\u00a0the voice of\u00a0God,\u00a0nor\u00a0listen to\u00a0a brother,\u00a0not\u00a0even to ourselves or\u00a0to\u00a0our conscience,\u00a0and\u00a0that is where error occurs,\u00a0that\u00a0error\u00a0can\u00a0change\u00a0an\u00a0entire\u00a0life.<\/p>\n

Oh,\u00a0how nice it would\u00a0if\u00a0we learned\u00a0to\u00a0be silent,\u00a0as\u00a0do\u00a0the\u00a0monks,\u00a0hermits,\u00a0saints, scholars,\u00a0mystics!\u00a0Men and women\u00a0who\u00a0have taken refuge in\u00a0special places\u00a0that they\u00a0have\u00a0a\u00a0special\u00a0silence, nature, solitude.And\u00a0when\u00a0there’s\u00a0nobody\u00a0around we encounter\u00a0God,\u00a0we find\u00a0ourselves\u00a0we find everyone.<\/p>\n

Silence is\u00a0the\u00a0first\u00a0song that\u00a0the\u00a0music minister\u00a0needs to hear<\/strong>.\u00a0Knowing\u00a0to live in\u00a0the solitude\u00a0is a sign\u00a0of\u00a0spiritual maturity.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0the beginning it\u00a0is not\u00a0easy to deal\u00a0with\u00a0silence, we have\u00a0difficulties.\u00a0But\u00a0that’s\u00a0to be\u00a0expected\u00a0because\u00a0we were not\u00a0accustomed.\u00a0However,\u00a0with\u00a0discipline\u00a0and perseverance, it develops from what\u00a0is\u00a0not natural to us to something\u00a0spontaneous.<\/p>\n

Hush!\u00a0And listen to\u00a0the\u00a0most beautiful\u00a0voice\u00a0of all.\u00a0What\u00a0voice\u00a0is\u00a0this?\u00a0Experience silence!<\/p>\n

Deus aben\u00e7oe, [God Bless You]<\/p>\n

We are together!<\/p>\n

Emanuel St\u00eanio<\/p>\n

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Hey guys, peace and goodness! One of the biggest\u00a0mistakes\u00a0we commit,\u00a0today,\u00a0with regard\u00a0to\u00a0Following\u00a0Christ\u00a0and\u00a0even\u00a0the\u00a0exercise\u00a0of\u00a0anyrole\u00a0is\u00a0not knowing\u00a0silence. Have you ever\u00a0stopped\u00a0to\u00a0think\u00a0how\u00a0easily\u00a0we lose\u00a0concentration?\u00a0Any\u00a0noise, however\u00a0simple\u00a0it may be,\u00a0takes away\u00a0our focus,\u00a0draws\u00a0our\u00a0attention\u00a0and\u00a0distracts\u00a0us from the\u00a0goal. Were not this natural tendency enough, the\u00a0world\u00a0has also\u00a0added to this, because\u00a0everything\u00a0is very “noisy”:\u00a0the\u00a0music,\u00a0the\u00a0cars, the street.\u00a0We cannot\u00a0“hear the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25555,25556],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7794,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions\/7794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}