In a culture that craves the big, the entertaining, the dramatic, and the shocking, cultivating a life with space for silence and repetition is necessary for sustaining a life of faith. Once a student complained to his professor about having to read Augustine's Confessions. "It's boring," the student whined. "No, it's not," the professor responded. "You're boring." What he meant is that when we gaze at the richness of the gospel and the church and find them dull and uninteresting, it's actually we who have been hollowed out. We have lost our capacity to see wonders where true wonders lie.
(from Tish Harrison Warren's Liturgy of the Ordinary, p. 34)
Blessings,
4 comments:
That sounds like a good book!
Excellent quote!
Wonderful quote!
Hah! I like that professor's retort.
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