Contemplative in the Mud

Contemplation is Founded on the Word

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Benjamin Embley

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Raïssa MaritainPrayer without words is itself founded on the Word who is Christ. It is founded on the Prayer of Jesus. The soul formed by the Lord’s Prayer prays – with or without words, in the murmur of words as in the bosom of the silence of pure contemplation – in the spiritual straightforwardness of the Lord’s Prayer, in the imitation of Jesus.
Raïssa Maritain (1883–1960)

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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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