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EDITORIAL ROMAN OBSERVER<\/p>\n

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November 21, 2020<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pope Francis at last Wednesday’s audience added off-handedly, “In silence, always in silence. Mary’s prayer is silent. The Gospel tells us only one prayer of Mary at Cana, then we do not know, but always her presence is a prayer, and her presence among the disciples in the Upper Room is in prayer. Thus Mary gives birth to the Church, she is mother of the Church.”<\/p>\n

Mary, in her life in Nazareth, speaks and narrates silence, which is the essential, original and originating word of God’s Word. Mary’s prayer is powerful, silent, vigilant and attentive to people’s needs, as at the wedding at Cana.<\/p>\n

Ephrem the Syrian calls Our Lady “the silent one” and writes in his Christmas hymns, “When thou therefore hearest of the birth of God, be silent: what Gabriel said remain impressed on thy spirit! Nothing there is too difficult for that lofty majesty who for us stooped to be born among us and of us. Today Mary is a heaven to us, for she bears God.” A great teacher of spiritual life, Abbot Blessed Columba Marmion, commented on Mary’s life as follows: “In this inner recollection lived the Virgin Mary: the Gospel says that she kept the words of her divine Son in her heart to meditate on them: ‘Maria conservabat omnia verba h\u00e6c conferens in corde suo<\/i>‘(Lk. <\/i> 2, 19); she did not diffuse herself in words, but full of grace and divine illuminations, flooded with the gifts of the Holy Spirit, she remained silent, adoring her Son, contemplating the ineffable mystery that had been accomplished in her and for her, raising to God an unceasing hymn of praise and thanksgiving from the sanctuary of her immaculate heart” (Dom Columba Marmion, Monk’s Ideal Christ<\/i>, pp. 375-384, passim<\/i>).<\/p>\n

Anthony Bloom, monk and metropolitan bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, wrote: “There are times when we have no need for words, either our own or others, and we pray then in silence. This perfect silence is the ideal prayer, provided, however, that the silence is real and not a daydream. We have very little experience of what deep silence of body and heart means, when an absolute serenity fills the heart, when total peace fills the body, when there is no agitation of any kind and we stand before God, completely open in an act of worship. There may be times when we feel good physically, and mentally relaxed, tired of words because we have already used too much of them; we don’t want to fidget and feel good in this delicate balance; we are there on the edge of the daydream. Inner silence is an absence of any kind of agitation of thought or emotions, but it is a total vigilance, an openness to God. We must keep absolute silence when we can, but we must never let it degenerate into mere pleasure. To avoid this, the great authors of Orthodoxy warn us never to completely abandon the normal forms of prayer, for even those who had achieved this silence of contemplation judged it necessary, whenever they were in danger of spiritual relaxation, to reintroduce the words of prayer until prayer had renewed the silence. The Greek Fathers placed this silence, which they called hesychia,<\/i> at the same time as the starting and ending point of a life of prayer. Silence is the state in which all the faculties of soul and body are completely at peace, calm and collected, concentrated and perfectly alert, free from all agitation” (Anthony Bloom, Pri\u00e8re vivante<\/i>, Cerf, 1981).<\/p>\n

Cardinal and saint John Henry Newman composed this beautiful prayer, taking us on a spiritual journey into the heart of the Virgin of Silence:<\/p>\n

Prayer to the Silent Mother<\/h3>\n

Silent Mary,
\nthat you imagined everything
\nwithout speaking,
\nBeyond all human vision,
\nhelp me get in
\nin the mystery of Christ
\nslowly and deeply,
\nLike a pilgrim burning with thirst
\nenters a dark cave
\nAt the end of which I hear a faint running of water.<\/p>\n

Make me first of all kneel down
\nto worship,
\nlet then keys the rock
\nconfident,
\nAnd forward me serene into the mystery.
\nFinally let me quench my thirst
\nto the water of the Word
\nsilent
\nlike you.
\nMaybe then, Maria,
\nthe secret of the Crucified Son
\nwill be revealed to me
\nIn its boundless immensity
\nAnd images and words will fall
\nTo make room only for infinity.<\/p>\n

by Emiliano Antenucci<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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