In a world agitated by disorder in souls, we receive the invitation to find humility and peace through interior silence.
Newsroom (12/20/2025 3:44 PM, Gaudium Press) Some time ago, a challenge launched by an internationally renowned company became news: they offered a large sum of money to anyone who could remain for more than one hour in a room isolated from any external noise.
Despite the prize, apparently so simple to obtain, people were incapable of remaining there quietly, listening only to their breathing and heartbeats. After some time, they felt distressed at being delivered solely to their own thoughts. Today’s world has made us unaccustomed to silence…
The Gospel of this Sunday, however, wishes to show us the importance of interior silence.
We contemplate in the narration of Saint Matthew (cf. Mt 1:18–24) two silences: that of humility and that of the heart.
First we see the Most Holy Mary who, after receiving the visit of the Archangel Saint Gabriel announcing to Her the highest dignity granted to a creature, that of being the Mother of God, keeps silence. She does not go out into the streets calling the attention of others to the divine mystery that was being accomplished in her virginal womb, nor does She seek to exalt Herself because of the greatness of her condition. She does not judge herself entitled to transmit even to her most chaste spouse the ineffable miracle that She bore within Herself, perhaps thinking: “If what is in Me is the work of God, He Himself will reveal it to whom He considers necessary.” Silence of humility, which keeps within itself the divine gifts and does not become vain over what it received from the Creator.
On the other hand, we see Saint Joseph, a just man, who had received Her as Spouse through signs from Heaven and had ratified with Her the vow of both to preserve virginity for love of God. Nevertheless, he perceives in Our Lady the characteristic signs of pregnancy…
Witness of Mary’s holiness, her ardent devotee as there has been no other in History, at no moment did the Glorious Patriarch even suspect her integrity. On the contrary, he immediately realized the sublime mystery that enveloped his virginal Spouse. A mystery so elevated that he was unworthy to know it… And, if this was the will of God, the most perfect attitude consisted in accepting it and withdrawing in the silence of his heart.
Both silences are the fruit of the serenity characteristic of those who desire to serve God and are always disposed to renounce their own will in order to fulfill His.
The world, however, accustoms men to agitation, robbing them of peace of soul and of the capacity to, recollecting themselves in their interior, accept the will of Providence. This is the constant noise that unbalances souls.
Let us learn from Mary the silence of humility, never becoming vain over the gifts we owe to the Creator. And let us know, like Saint Joseph, how to silence our anguishes or afflictions, always accepting the will of God, for this will bring the dawn of His manifestation.
Article taken from the Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, December 2025.
By Fr. Lucas Garcia Pinto, EP.
Compiled by Gustavo Kralj
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