Solitude and Silence: The Cloister of the Heart Discontinued making it easy to grasp

making it easy to grasp

a culture steeped in the blood of the Lamb

Whether you're a skeptic or a devout follower

we must arm ourselves with the virtues exemplified by the saints

even more so

Solitude and Silence: The Cloister of the Heart Discontinued making it easy to graspWhat can the lay person learn from the life of a monk? Solitude and Silence are two pillars of monastic life that many people quickly point to as the hardest and most confusing parts of this kind of religious consecration. However, the great spiritual writer Thomas Kempis, author of The Imitation of Christ, helps us to understand that all Christians are called to some solitude and silence in our lives while not taking on a complete eremitical life. He