Solitude and Silence: Gregory the Great on Active and Contemplative Life
Teaching on Solitude and Silence from Gregory the Great: Gregory the Great on Active and Contemplative Life
This is a spiritual discipline on contemplative life and active life, drawing on Luke 5:16, Mark 6:31 and Isaiah 40:31.
Gregory the Great (d. 604), one of the most influential popes in history, reflected deeply on the tension between the active life of service and the contemplative life of solitude. In his "Moralia on Job," he wrote: "The contemplative life is greater in merit than the active life, because the latter labors under the stress of present work, while the former tastes with inward relish the coming rest."…
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