Saturday, April 11, 2009

Silence and Stillness

To Mary it was told at the beginning: And thy own soul a sword shall pierce. The disciples were not prepared; but she was prepared: she had known beforehand something of how it would be, how it must be; and having seen her own vocation in her Son's she was faithful to it to the end. But the end which is the folly of the Cross, this was not the end for her Son, nor for her in her prevision, nor for us. She saw, through the anguish and helplessness of death, the renewal of life; through the savage winter the coming of the spring. She saw, but more than that, she hastened its coming by the silence and stillness of her sorrow. And so it must be for us. To us too, to our dying world, he will come all so still: he will come if, but only if, our world can learn sufficiently to be still and silent and adoring, can learn to return in quiet of soul to its source, can become again a contemplative world.

Gerald Vann in The Pain of Christ and the Sorrow of God

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