Tag: silence

Experience the beauty and nourishment of silence. Discover the hidden essence of Holy Silence and its power in Christi Ortiz' latest poem.

Martin Scorsese stands in a long line of Catholic American filmmakers, stretching back to the 1930s and 1940s. At a time when Catholicism still seemed foreign to many Americans, those directors helped normalize the faith, making it seem like part of a shared American story.

One reason is that Quakers consider silence a sacred place, a special and set apart meeting place — that is where people can encounter the living God.

...and birds chirping in the background on this cold winter morning as if to taunt me with their joy and song and carefree nature

“Silence can often seem like an absence of things; silence sometimes feels empty and heavy,” she said, “but I want people to be able to find silence and find the lightness and the freedom in silence.”

I know a young couple who recently lost a child through a miscarriage. It was very sad, even heartbreaking. And yet, I didn’t write a note, or make a call, or stop by their home. I felt awkward and I was silent.

The responsibility to educate doesn’t only fall on the heads of your Muslim, Jewish, brown, immigrant, disabled, LGBTQ friends. We need you!