O Divine Saviour! Oh most Amiable Heart. I thank Thee for having perpetuated Thy humble, obedient, self-sacrificing and recollected silence of Nazareth in the tabernacle. How Thy example puts me to shame! Forgive me for my bold, self-seeking, and superficial talkativeness. Teach me to understand the words: “In silence and in hope shall your strength be.”
Silence in Church
“For thus saith the Lord God the Holy One of Israel: If you return and be quiet, you shall be saved: in silence and in hope shall your strength be. And you would not…” [Isaias (Isaiah) 30:15]. Would not what? Quit talking in church in the presence of the Lord in the tabernacle? This has now become a major problem in most Catholic churches where, instead of praying to the Lord in the tabernacle before and after Mass, people just start talking to one another as if they’re in an auditorium or social hall. My brethren, this should not be! St. Peter Julian Eymard said, “God punishes irreverences committed in his sanctuary with a weakening of faith and losses of graces of devotion.” – The Victim. God says, “Reverence my sanctuary.” “Keep ye my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.” Leviticus 19:30, which means, Sacred Silence in His divine presence. No indiscriminate talking. “But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.” Habaccuc 2:20. “A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.” [Ecclesiastes 3:7]. “Our Lady does not want us to talk in church,” said little St. Jacinta of Fatima. Cardinal Corsi, d.1870, once said, “It is a sin to talk in church, and a much more serious sin when we distract others who are trying to pray.” One day a man and woman were trying to pray and make their thanksgiving after Mass but the church immediately turned into a loud social hall, with their backs to Jesus in the tabernacle, and the lady said, “I can’t even pray they are making so much noise.” “They have turned their back to me, and not their face.” Jeremiah 2:27. All these sins fall back on the priest who allows it, and oftentimes does it himself. How many sins will he have to give an account for on the day of judgement for the sins of others, whom he was obligated to correct? “From my secret offenses cleanse me, O Lord, and from those of others, spare thy servant.” “The sins of others are those we cause others to commit.” – St. Anthony Mary Claret. “A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.”[Ecclesiastes 3:7]. A saint once said, “It is a sin to speak when we should be silent, and also a sin to be silent when we should speak.” As Cardinal Corsi once said, “It is a sin to talk in church, and a much more serious sin when we distract others who are trying to pray.” Do we come to church to offend Our Lord, or to appease him and ask for graces we stand in need of? St. Peter Eymard said, “We must observe a strict silence. Friends must be as if they were not. Jesus is the only one honored there!” Reverend Fathers, you must correct these abuses, otherwise you will be accountable for all the sins committed in the presence of Our Lord. The example of Mary and Joseph should motivate us. Mary only spoke seven times in the whole of Scripture. St. Joseph never spoke once. In the picture of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, Mary has a small mouth, and it denotes that Mary spoke very little. “In the multitude of words there shall not want sin: but he that refraineth his lips is most wise.” [Proverbs 10:19]. “But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment.” St. Matthew 12:36. “Every idle word,” Our Lord said. How much more so disrespecting Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, and distracting others trying to pray.
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