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Being Reduced to Nothing

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Benjamin Embley

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Charles de FoucauldBeing reduced to nothing is the most powerful means we have of uniting ourselves to Jesus and of doing good to others.
Blessed Charles de Foucauld (1858–1916)

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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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    […] them consolations. Charles de Foucauld tells us that nothing unites us more closely to Jesus than being reduced to nothing; in this, he echoes his beloved John of the Cross. And how many saints have told us that love […]

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