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.
Richard Rohr, our author for October, ...............

You can read more about Richard Rohr's book, Silent Compassion:Finding God in Contemplation (Franciscan Media, 2014), 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 7th October , 2024
Richard Rohr, Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation (Franciscan Media, 2014), ...................
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​​​To read more about Richard Rohr's book, from which this month's quotes are taken, click here.

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