tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540233923006986205.post8155590397149510723..comments2009-02-28T13:02:34.591-06:00Comments on Thoughts from a Ragamuffin: Silence is goldenRagamuffinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16102860882549986216noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540233923006986205.post-47471828497567561272008-05-04T23:01:00.000-05:002008-05-04T23:01:00.000-05:00I don't even mind some VERY soft music playing jus...I don't even mind some VERY soft music playing just so you don't hear every creak and shuffle from the congregation. That's what the Methodist church I grew up in would do at the evening service. They'd open the altar rail for people to come down and pray silently, dim the lights and have the organ very softly playing in the background. It's a great memory I have of that church.<BR/><BR/>The main thing is that it's peaceful and conducive to prayer and meditation and resting in God's presence. You get virtually none of that in modern evangelical services.Ragamuffinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16102860882549986216noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540233923006986205.post-66928181097024693882008-05-03T12:05:00.000-05:002008-05-03T12:05:00.000-05:00Yup, that is something I really noticed and love! ...Yup, that is something I really noticed and love! It is just so peaceful to go into a Catholic Church and be able to kneel and pray in the quiet.<BR/><BR/>It was funny, about the time I was just starting to visit the Catholic Church and thinking about it, at my Methodist church there was a sermon series about honoring the Sabbath. We had some "quiet" time in church, bu it was never really quiet, they always had some kind of background music. It always has struck me as strange that even then it wasn't really "being still."Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16930356798166159270noreply@blogger.com