The Power of Silence~By Cardinal Sarah

[Dawn Marie]

Our world no longer hears God because it is constantly speaking at a devastating speed and volume, in order to say nothing. Modern civilization does not know how to be quiet.  It holds forth in an unending monologue.   Postmodern society rejects the past and looks at the present as a cheap consumer object;  it pictures the future in terms of an almost obsessive progress.  Its dream which has become a sad reality, will have been to lock silence away in a damp dark dungeon.

 

Thus there is a dictatorship of speech, a dictatorship of verbal emphasis.  In this theater of shadows, nothing is left but a purulent wound of mechanical words, without perspective, without truth, and without foundation.  Quite often “truth” is nothing more than the pure and misleading creation of the media, corroborated by fabricated images and testimonies.

 

When that happens, the word of God fades away, inaccessible and inaudible.  Postmodernity is an ongoing offense and aggression against the divine silence.  From morning to evening, from evening to morning, silence no longer has any place at all; the noise tries to prevent God Himself from speaking.  In this hell of noise, man disintegrates and is lost, he is broken up into countless worries, fantasies and fears.   

 

In order to get out of the depressing tunnels, he desperately awaits noise so that it will bring him a few consolations.  Noise is a deceptive, addictive, and false tranquilizer. The tragedy of our world is never better summed up than in the fury of senseless noise that stubbornly hates silence.  This age detests the things that silence brings us to; encounter, wonder, and kneeling before God.

[Dawn Marie]

they may have fixed the technical bug...yeehaww