Solitude and Silence: The Cloister of the Heart St. Joseph the Worker for the Lord your God

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Solitude and Silence: The Cloister of the Heart St. Joseph the Worker for the Lord your GodWhat can the lay person learn from the life of a monk? Solitude and Silence are two pillars of monastic life that many people quickly point to as the hardest and most confusing parts of this kind of religious consecration. However, the great spiritual writer Thomas Kempis, author of The Imitation of Christ, helps us to understand that all Christians are called to some solitude and silence in our lives while not taking on a complete eremitical life. He