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Perhaps it is inevitable that cultures develop a narrowness of vision fostered especially by success in the area of activity most characteristic of their particular strengths, as is the case today of the astounding economic productivity throughout the contemporary world. Religion offers a comprehensive understanding of human life that provides, at the very least, a counterbalance to the one-sidedness that is typical of the strength of any particular culture. It is remarkable to observe that spiritual resources prove to have great potency even when they seem to have at their disposal a poverty of means and cultural visibility in the daily contests of social activity. A startling example of this proposition is available in a new film titled Into Great Silence, depicting monastic life in the Grande Chartreuse, a Carthusian monastery in the French Alps near Grenoble. (1) German filmmaker Philip Groning, drawing upon an artistic restraint that seems in its own way to be beautifully informed by the deep ascetism of the monastic life exhibited by his camera and microphone, invites the viewer to enter into the silence and contemplative spirit of the monastery. It is difficult to imagine a greater contrast than that between the driven pace and cacophonous energy of modern economic activity set against the responsive and gentle rhythm of a life of prayer following the eight Offices performed by the monks throughout the day. Groning forgoes the use of a musical soundtrack--how tempting it must have been to set some of the world's great contemplative music to these beautiful images. Instead the Gregorian chant sung by the monks, the sound of bells summoning them to prayer, the sound of snow melting off the roof, and the sound of fire in the stove provide the auditory aspect that lets us know what it means to listen constantly for the presence of God. The film also intersperses biblical texts into the depiction of daily life in the monastery, bringing to appearance the scriptural foundation of monastic life in the call to renounce all of our possessions as a condition of becoming a disciple of Christ.

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