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  • Silence is Golden

    Forum on Silence from St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow on Vimeo.

    Somehow I managed to forget to publish this video on the blog but it is worth taking a look. It came from a forum conversation that I had with the Vice Provost, Cedric Blakey the other week.

    The point of this was to have a public chat about the way Cedric prays. One of the odd things about church is that individuals very rarely talk about their own personal spirituality and I was grateful to Cedric for being so open to having this discussion.

    We talk about this and also about:

    • whether God dictates answers to us
    • how breathing is integral to prayer
    • how to teach someone to pray
    • if you fall asleep whilst doing breathing exercises is that a sign of it working?
    • do single people need to spend time in silence?
    • how silence is golden.

    The video is a fairly short forum conversation – just 20 minutes.

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6 responses to “It actually is time. Today.”

  1. Susan Sheppard Hedges Avatar
    Susan Sheppard Hedges

    Great!! I saw you!

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  2. Elizabeth Avatar
    Elizabeth

    Yes, yes it is. A glorious day!

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  3. Anne Lyons Avatar
    Anne Lyons

    A glorious day indeed! Scotland the Brave.

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  4. Lawrence Rosenfeld Avatar
    Lawrence Rosenfeld

    Wonderful day! Splendid video, too!

    Congratulations to the SEC and to Scotland which did so much to help found The (American) Episcopal Church.

    Reply
  5. Pam Avatar
    Pam

    I have a feeling Edward Gough Whitlam would approve of the slogan and, I hope, the message. What a beautiful country!

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  6. Peggy Brown Avatar
    Peggy Brown

    At last, after a lot of blood, sweat and tears. Congratulations, great video.

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