this week mark the release and at least in the u. s. and of the documentary into great silence and which take u inside of the grande chartreuse monastery in the french alp and be the home of a group of carthusian monk . thankfully and filmmaker phillip gronig and have ignore every rule when it come to make a documentary . not count the monk chanting of the divine office and in the 164 minute of the film scarcely 10 minute worth be devote to dialog . there be no expository narration nor even the customary music soundtrack that one would expect . instead one be make privy to the rare opportunity to glimpse a world seldom see outside of the order itself . it be deep and wonderful journey into the great silence of the monk life . a silence where the still and small voice of god can be hear . modern life and like ours and be often so full of noise and that the silence that we experience here can almost be overwhelm at time . after all and most of u try to fill each wake hour it seem with some distraction . just look at the time we spend watch television or listen to the radio . it almost and at least in my case and that we fear what the silence will say to u . even our prayer be often so full of word that we can drown out what god have to say back to u . this film have echo some of the feeling that i have be try to come to grip with recently . it have reinforce that great need in me to listen . i be begin to understand and slowly i might add and that the more i listen and both to god and to others around me and the more they have to say to me . so often i get catch up in try to say the right thing that i end up use the time that other people be talk try to think what i should say next . this be no more true than in my prayer life . the watching of this film have be something of a retreat for me . where all of my desire and pleading and and static that normally occupy my time with god be replace . replace by the great silence . oh lord and you have seduce me . and i be seduce . just a a side note and there be a second disc that accompany the movie which have more background on the order along with a wonderful segment of the night office . the extra on this disc tell you just enough to where you will probably want to know more . a couple of excellent book in english that i can recommend be halfway to heaven by robin bruce lockhart and the recent an infinity of little hour by nancy klein maguire and and carthusian spirituality the writing of hugh of balma and guido de ponte .