Sin in Words & Thoughts: Father Robert Nixon, OSB, on Thomas à Kempis & Solitude and Silence

Son Rise Morning Show · Oct 1, 2026 · 6m

How easily do we sin not only through our spoken words, but within the hidden theater of our thoughts? Father Robert Nixon, OSB—Benedictine monk at New Norcia in Australia and translator for the TAN Resurrection Series—joins host Anna Mitchell on the Son Rise Morning Show to reflect on Thomas à Kempis's classic insights from Solitude and Silence: The Cloister of the Heart. Father Nixon breaks down the spiritual connection between thought, speech, and action, explaining how internal thoughts act as a form of interior speech before God, why Jesus repeatedly addressed the…