Catholic Medical Quarterly Vol 76 (3) August 2026
Reflections
Where Silence Listens
By Amy Fernandes
In Taizé’s hush of 2025,
Where candles breathe their gold,
a
borrowed flame,
We sit between the now and the future
Letting
silence speak our name.
A single chant, a gentle plea,
Where voices circle, clear as water—
one phrase, worn smooth by hope,
passing from heart to heart.
Time
loosens its grip.
Languages kneel beside each other,
Many tongues,
one listening heart,
and the silence no longer feels empty
but full
of listening.
A song repeats and dares to stay.
These loops bring hope that will
not tire;
One small light, a world on fire.
Faith here is but a
dwelling place,
a door left open to dare to hope.
This year the world still aches,
still suffers, still shouts,
yet
here, prayer draws us in
teaching our souls to slow down
to welcome
our God; the three in One
To receive this small flame
We call faith
,hope and love
To cup us gently against the unknown.
With questions
that refuse to harden our hearts,
We sing what we cannot solve,
We
trust what we cannot see,
and we rest in You
in togetherness
And
we ask that it is enough.