The Silence of the Holy Family (I)

Tradition tells us that the three inhabitants of the Holy House of Nazareth almost never spoke. The sweet heavenly conversations, that we could believed to be a part of the life of the Holy Family, took place merely in our imagination, they did not exist. Silence reigned there deeper than in a loneliness of tears or a Cistercian monk’s monastery where the winds of the Alps howl through the corridors and shake the windows, while the rest of the house is quiet as a tomb. The words of Jesus were very rare, which is the reason why Mary kept them in her heart, like treasures, because they were as rare as they were precious. If we think about this, we will understand that it could hardly have been otherwise. God is very quiet.