First Sunday of Kiahk - Holy Silence

"Let my tongue be silent, that my heart may speak, Let my heart be silent, so You may speak within me, O Holy One!" Fr Tadros Y Malaty

Perhaps one of the most important virtues that St Mary acquired since her childhood is holy silence, as she kept silent from the conversations of the world so that her heart would be preoccupied with God's work within her. This virtue remained with her until the day she left the world. As the Evangelist repeats his saying about her, “But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19, 51). St Mary would not have been able to endure the exalted divine graces she had received, had the grace of God not endowed her to contemplate in her depths the mysteries of God and His gifts to her and to all mankind.
In the first of this series of short reads, Fr Tadros Malaty unpacks the benefits of silence and its value in our spiritual lives.