“Interior listening” and liturgy

Carthusian Rite Confiteor, photo from New Liturgical Movement.

“In a culture which neither favors nor fosters meditative quiet, the art of interior listening is learned only with difficulty. Here we see how the liturgy, though it must always be properly inculturated, must also be counter-cultural.”  ~Pope Saint John Paul II, Address to the Bishops of the United States of America, 1998