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Bishop Joseph Strickland: The Sound of Silence: Silencing the Holy Ghost – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Bishop Joseph Strickland: The Sound of Silence: Silencing the Holy Ghost

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By Bishop Joseph Strickland, Bishop Emeritus, Pillars of Faith, May 22, 2026

There is an old song by Simon & Garfunkel called “The Sound of Silence.” Many of you know it. One line says, “People talking without speaking, people hearing without listening.” Those words have echoed in my mind as we approach Pentecost.

Because we are living in an age filled with noise. Endless talking. Endless commentary. Endless statements. Endless meetings. Endless documents. Endless discussions. And yet beneath all the noise, there is a terrible silence growing in the world and even within parts of the Church.

Not the holy silence of prayer. Not the silence of a soul kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament. Not the silence of monks or cloistered religious listening for the whisper of God. But the silence that comes when men stop listening to the Holy Ghost. ….

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