“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… — Robert Sarah Copy Share Image
“There are so many priests who enter triumphantly and walk up toward the altar, greeting people left and right, so as to appear sympathetic.… — Robert Sarah Copy Share
“God’s only power is to love silently. He is incapable of any oppressive force. God is love, and love cannot compel, force, or oppress… — Robert Sarah Copy Share
“This age detests the things that silence brings us to: encounter, wonder, and kneeling before God.” — Robert Sarah Copy Share
“Celebration toward the east fosters silence. Indeed, there is less temptation for the celebrant to monopolize the conversation. Facing the Lord, he is less… — Robert Sarah Copy Share
“here is my hope: God willing, when he wills and as he wills, the reform of the reform will take place in the liturgy.… — Robert Sarah Copy Share
“Words often bring with them the illusion of transparency, as though they allowed us to understand everything, control everything, put everything in order. Modernity… — Robert Sarah Copy Share
“Through silence, we return to our heavenly origin, where there is nothing but calm, peace, repose, silent contemplation, and adoration of the radiant face… — Robert Sarah Copy Share
“It is the same with priestly ordination. In silence, through the sacrament of Holy Orders, a man becomes not only an alter Christus, another… — Robert Sarah Copy Share
“I consider the days of old, I remember the years long ago. I commune with my heart in the night; I meditate and search… — Robert Sarah Copy Share
“The devil invites mankind to rebellion and disorder. With his litany of subterfuges, he sows discord and incites us to pour out our hatred… — Robert Sarah Copy Share
“Celebrating Mass facing east, by breaking up the face-to-face, private get-together, helps to prevent turning the liturgy into the community's celebration of itself.” — Robert Sarah Copy Share
“For someone who is far from God, silence is a difficult confrontation with his own self and with the rather dismal realities that are… — Robert Sarah Copy Share
“Some priests unfaithful to the "memory" of Jesus insist more on the festive aspect and the fraternal dimension of the Mass than on the… — Robert Sarah Copy Share
“It is necessary to protect precious silence from all parasitical noise. The noise of our “ego”, which never stops claiming its rights, plunging us… — Robert Sarah Copy Share
