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# Speed in the Cathedral
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/5423/
- Published: 2007-04-06T14:58:56.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-21T12:19:33.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

[My most-recent piece at CE](http://www.catholicexchange.com/en/node/60539?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpt:

> Speed and efficiency are the products of the new technology. We use the new technology, we become speedier and more efficient. We also start valuing speed and efficiency. I know I have, often to the point of frenzied living.

> By contrast, what are the inputs of religious life? What do these things have in common: life in the monastery, attending Mass, reading the Bible, meditation, cultivating virtue?

> Those things conjure up certain images, and they're not images of speed and efficiency. The images are of slow and deliberate things: hooded monks walking slowly, kneeling, patience, stillness. Calm, not frenzied.

> If everything starts to look like a nail to a man with a hammer, how well is he going to deal with a crying newborn? How will the religious life look to a person with email, cell phone, and iPod?