Monday, October 22, 2007
OLD TRUTHS STILL ATTRACT AN AUDIENCE
Yesterday at Mass Father gave a homily about prayer. He said all the familiar things about prayer using set formulas when people gather together to pray because the prayer would be chaotic otherwise, and about prayer simply being talking to God when we use our own words to pray silently.
He talked about the need to be persistent in prayer, asking for what we want over and over again as St. Monica did when she prayed for 17 years that her son Augustine would be baptized.
All of what he said was familiar to me. I think it was familiar to the rest of the congregation as well. These were not great revelations. They were not entertainment, either. They were an affirmation of the Catholic faith. Father didn't make any jokes or tell any funny stories. He stayed with the topic until his homily was finished, and he took his subject seriously.
The thing was, you could have heard a pin drop in church. No one was whispering. Very few people coughed. There were no sounds of shuffling around. I thought perhaps it was just me liking what he was saying and wanting to find some evidence that others did as well, so I asked my husband what he thought about the homily, and he thought you could have heard a pin drop as well.
