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Quiet Prayer
A week before Christmas, the house was hushed, the silence barely cracked by the quiet voices of visiting oriests and a solitary worshipper or two. From 9 p.m. until noon, the friars spend their hours in silence, speaking only when absolutely necessary, Father Augustine said. “Prayer grows in an atr mosphere of quiet.” The time between the six services of chanted psalms they devote to private prayer, to study and reading and to the hundred and one
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