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By Joseph Pearce, National Catholic Register, September 28, 2024
Joseph Pearce Joseph Pearce is Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University and a Visiting Fellow of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, New Hampshire). The author of more than 30 books, he is editor of the St. Austin Review, series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, senior instructor with Homeschool Connections, and senior contributor at the Imaginative Conservative and Crisis Magazine. …
This essay was first published by Aleteia and appears here with permission.
How did everything come into being? How did anything come into being?
We are blessed with silence. More importantly, we are blessed by silence.
In his book, The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise, Cardinal Robert Sarah offers us the following words of whispered wisdom: “Through silence, we return to our heavenly origin, where there is nothing but calm, peace, repose, silent contemplation, and adoration of the radiant face of God.”
With these words in mind, I realize how blessed I am by the silence in my life. My office looks out over a meadow and a creek and the woods beyond. My desk is set up by the window so that every time I raise my eyes from my work, I can look out at the silent beauty of the landscape. Such silence invites us to the contemplation of the radiant face of creation, seeing in it the radiant face of the Creator. …
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