Silence
William L. Brownsberger“Presence in silence betokens disponibility. . . . Selfishness centers on the scattered-out self (in the Augustinian sense).”
Winter 2009
Silence and Prayer
Music, Silence, and Technology
Jonah LynchPrayer in the Life of the Priest
Roch Kereszty“Once he realizes that God has decided from all eternity to grant certain graces to certain people at the intercession of their priest, he may have more incentive not to get tired of praying for his faithful. God loves the prayer of the shepherd for his sheep.”
Praying to the Father in the Son Through the Spirit: Reflections on the Specificity of Christian Prayer
Jean-Pierre BatutHow Could You Do What You Did?
Robert Spaemann“Guilt can be taken away from me. But shame is a feeling that no one can take away. It pertains to the fact that I was capable of doing what I did.”
The Suffering Body, Hope, and the Disclosure of the Future
José Granados“The true secret of Christian hope is that it feeds on suffering. The art of hope consists of finding precisely within the suffering that seems to obstruct the future, the key that opens it up.”