Only if we first listen (Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe)

    But we will only have a voice if we first listen. God calls to people by name. Abraham, Abraham; Moses, Samuel. They reply with the beautiful Hebrew word Hinneni, ‘Here I am’. The foundation of our existence is that God addresses each of us by name, and we hear. Not the Cartesian ‘I think, therefore, I am’ but I hear, therefore, I am. We are here to listen to the Lord, and to each other. As they say, we have two ears but only one mouth! Only after listening comes speech. 

--Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe 

Image source 1: Fresco of Saint Paul in the Cave of Saint. Paul at Ephesus, late 5th century, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle#/media/File:Fresco_of_Saint_Paul_at_Ephesus.jpg
Image source 2: Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Conversion of Saul, fresco (1542-1545), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle#/media/File:Conversion_of_Saint_Paul_(Michelangelo_Buonarroti).jpg
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