Summer 2020 Feature: “Silence before God” by Oswald Bayer

I will never forget the determination with which my wife, in an interview shortly before her death, answered the question: “What
is it that makes the greatest impression on you in the Divine Service?” She answered without hesitation: “The great stillness when
everyone is silent.” Silentium is, in fact, a precious thing—rising out of invoking God’s aid in the preaching service in Württemberg,
where stillness serves as “the appeal to the Holy Spirit, both for those who preach and for those who hear the Word.”1

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