Our Lady of Silence

Our Lady of Silence - Icon written by Father Emiliano Antenucci

O Mary, Mother of Silence,

You who kept every word and pondered it in your heart,

teach me to listen before I speak,

to adore before I act,

to love before I judge.

When noise surrounds me

and words wound my soul,

cover me with your mantle of quiet light,

still my restless thoughts,

soften my anxious heart.

Hollow me to be a dwelling place for the Word made flesh.

You, who gazed upon the mystery of your Son

with the eyes of faith,

and the silence of awe,

help me to find God

in the gentle whisper,

in the pauses between my words,

in the humble obedience of everyday love.

Mother of the Incarnate Word,

guard my lips from harshness and haste.

Grant me the courage to be silent

when silence is charity,

and to speak only when truth demands it.

Our Lady of Silence,

santuary of the listening heart,

frorm me in your  image 

so that in the stillness of prayer

I may hear the voice of God

and echo His peace to the world. 

Amen. 

Father Norbert Siwinske

Christian Landenberger - Artist

 "A silent heart is a pure heart; a melody singing in the heart of God. Like a sacristy lamp flickering noiselessly at the tabernacle, and like incense silently rising at the Savior's throne, such is love's silence."

Sister Marie Aimee de Jesus, O.C.D.

Leopold Schmutzler - Artist
Classical Girl with Lyre

"A praise of glory is a soul of silence that remains like a lyre under the mysterious touch of the Holy Spirit so that He may draw from it divine harmonies..."

Light- Love-Life 

St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

 

 

A Flower for our Lord...

Friedrich Krepp - Artist

"...Seize upon every opportunity of keeping silent and give Me this silence just as though you were picking a flower for Me. Oh, this beautiful silence full of peace, humility, serenity and intimacy with God! How much you can obtain in these blessed moments!..."

He and I By Gabrielle Bossis

Angel's Wings...

                                                                         

                                                                        

Abbott Handerson Thayer - Artist

"...The silence of love resembles the sounds of the angels' wings when they carry out God's commands. This silence is a love that obeys God's own silence. The silence of love corresponds to a completion: the meeting of two silences, the human silence and the silence of God, that are walking along together. Gethsemane and Christ's Calvary represent the most beautiful union of these two silences..."

The Power of Silence

Adorned in the silence of God...

Alois Hans Schram - Artist

 

"....The desire to see God is what urges us to love solitude and silence. For silence is where God dwells. He drapes himself in silence..."

The Power of Silence by Robert Cardinal Sarah

Evariste Carpentier - Artist

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                   "...prayer is an art to be cultivated..."

 

                                (Taken from Lectio Divana and The Practice of Teresian Prayer)

Silence is Golden....

Digital Art by Lindy

 

Solitude...

Painting by Henri LeBasque

"Solitude and silence are guests of the soul.  The soul that possesses them carries them with it everywhere.  The one that lacks them finds them nowhere.  In order to re-enter silence, it is not enough to stop the movement of one's lips and the movement of one's thoughts.  That is only being quiet.  Being quiet is a a condition for silence, but it is not silence.  Silence is a word, silence is a thought.  It is a word and a thought in which all words and all thoughts are concentrated."
                                                                                   Carthusian Dom Augustin Guillerand