The Sound of Silence

In his great book The Spirit of the Liturgy Cardinal Ratzinger, as was, now Pontiff Emeritus Benedict XVI, had a lot to say about silence in the liturgy, and the problem represented by its almost complete exclusion from the Ordinary Form.

Blessed Mother Theresa of Calcutta used to say that there were three things necessary for holiness:

1. Silence
2. Silence
3. Silence