Contemplative in the Mud

A God Laboured by the Work of His Hands!

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Benjamin Embley

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Charles JournetContemplation and action: The entrance of Christianity into the world shook the meaning of these words… Contemplation, as the ancients understood it, was reserved for the few, and manual labour was degrading… But when Jesus, the Word made flesh, came among us, and he laboured during his hidden life… you must think that this would change our notion of labour! Among us, a GOD laboured by the work of his hands!
Charles Cardinal Journet (1891–1975)

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Benjamin Embley

With backgrounds in engineering (BSc PhD) and philosophy (MA), Ben has lived and worked in England, France, and Thailand and is now back home as a settler in the unceded traditional territory of the Wabanaki peoples in Canada. He is a Laudato Si’ Animator and currently studying an MTS Peace & Justice in Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples.

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