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“But here is my hope: God willing, when he wills and as he wills, the reform of the reform will take place in the liturgy. Despite the gnashing of teeth, it will happen, for the future of the Church is at stake. To ruin the liturgy is to ruin our relationship to God and the concrete expression of our Christian faith.”
― The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise
― The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise
“The question,’ she replied, ‘is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“Inappropriate?” Pattern said. “Such as … dividing by zero?”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“Now, celebrations become tiring because they unfold in noisy chattering. The liturgy is sick. The most striking symptom of this sickness is perhaps the omnipresence of the microphone. It has become so indispensable that one wonders how priests were able to celebrate before it was invented.”
― The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise
― The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise
“For someone who is far from God, silence is a difficult confrontation with his own self and with the rather dismal realities that are at the bottom of our soul. Hence, man enters a mentality that resembles a denial of reality. He gets drunk on all sorts of noises so as to forget who he is. Postmodern man seeks to anesthetize his own atheism.”
― The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise
― The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise
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