{"id":95,"date":"2010-10-21T17:38:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T00:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=95"},"modified":"2010-11-01T13:04:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T20:04:33","slug":"a-new-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/a-new-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>his is a new start on what I hope will be a spiritual journal as I discern my possible vocation to the diaconate.<\/p>\n<p>This site has been moved in its entirety from it original site at http:\/\/mundus-tranquillare-hic.blogspot.com\/.<\/p>\n<p>The old site will be shut down at some point.<\/p>\n<p>The phrase that just occurred to me as I was typing this was &#8220;silence and song&#8221;. Those two threads have informed much of my spiritual journey thus far.<\/p>\n<p>So here is the song:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/N1UZTBzNFT0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And here is the silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a new start on what I hope will be a spiritual journal as I discern my possible vocation to the diaconate. This site has been moved in its entirety from it original site at http:\/\/mundus-tranquillare-hic.blogspot.com\/. The old site will be shut down at some point. The phrase that just occurred to me as I was typing this was [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,11,20,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-ephemera","category-chant","category-silence","category-vocation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-1x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1871,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/living-the-liturgy\/","url_meta":{"origin":95,"position":0},"title":"Living the Liturgy","author":"Thom","date":"10 December 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"like I should share this video documentary about the Benedictine Abbey at Clear Creek, Oklahoma. When I was thinking of the New Cluny, this is pretty much exactly what I had in mind, though I didn't know it at the time. 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It needs to be shared, and I for one need to ponder the scriptures and the Pope's words. Helping Those Called to \"Recognize the Voice of God and Follow It\" VATICAN CITY, JAN. 16, 2012 (Zenit.org).-\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Meditations&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Meditations","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/meditations\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Pope_Benedict_XVI_Angelus_CNA_Vatican_Catholic_News_12_8_10_2.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":162,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/a-meditation-on-silence\/","url_meta":{"origin":95,"position":2},"title":"A Meditation on Silence","author":"Thom","date":"31 October 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"There are two kinds of people - those who know the value of silence and those who do not. 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