A post throughout each week of the month, offering quotes and resources linked to one contemporary author who writes about silence and its role as a spiritual discipline.
The first week of each month has a short, image-backed quote with links to associated resources in the text below it. In other weeks, the short quote is taken from a longer one by the month's author, found below the image. The last week of the month has a short quote and questions to encourage reflection on all the month's quotations and images.
Sister Jeremy Hall, our author for May, ............

You can read more about Sister Jeremy Hall's book, Silence, Solitude, and Simplicity: A Hermit's Love Affair with a Noisy, Crowded, and Complicated World (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 2007), from which this month's quotes are taken, by clicking here.

Audio resources​

Guided Meditation: for any quote
Lectio Divina: use with long quotes
​For a 5 minute audio guided meditation to use with each week's short quote, click play on the image. To pause and restart click the same place. 
An audio guided Lectio Divina for the longer quotes. Click play on the image above. Allow 10-15 minutes for this. For a text version, click the button.
Monday 5th May, 2025
Sister Jeremy Hall, ​Silence, Solitude, and Simplicity: A Hermit's Love Affair with a Noisy, Crowded, and Complicated World (Liturgical Press, 2007), 111.
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​​​To read more about Sister Jeremy Hall's book, from which this month's quotes are taken, click here.

Sister Jeremy Hall ... 
Info about JH: 
https://www.susansinkblog.com/2008/11/27/sister-jeremy-hall/
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