Hi, my name is Father Mike Schmitz and this is The Sentron Presents.

Speaking of awkward silences, let's talk about silence.

So many of our lives have so much noise and so little silence that I think we're missing

something as a culture.

Years ago Pope Benedict XVI, he said that God's first language is silence.

But think about this.

Think about when was the last time you ever had any kind of sense where you actually chose

to enter into silence and didn't distract yourself by introducing noise?

What was the last time when you entered into silence and didn't then just kind of at some

point have the awkward silence and so then you had to just say something, do something

distract yourself by some kind of noise, whether that's actual noise, like audible noise

or visual noise or just kind of mental noise.

But God's first language is silence because God speaks in silence.

It's actually in silence that God reveals Himself.

I used to grow up thinking like I'd hear about these saints who had actual audible messages

from God.

The God would speak to them.

I think that's what it is to pray.

To pray is to enter into this time of prayer and God would just actually speak and then

realizing, wait, wait, that sometimes happens.

What God's first language is to reveal Himself through silence.

Not only reveals Himself in silence, He also reveals ourselves to ourselves in silence.

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