Contemplative in the Mud

The Eucharist Makes the Church Herself

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Benjamin Embley

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At St Nikolaus Church in Pattaya, Thailand

When the Church is assembled to celebrate the Eucharist and the sacraments, she appears in a visible way as what she really is. Certainly, the Eucharistic celebration is not an object to be demonstrated; we don’t show it in a window so that people can pass by and look. But the Church is not really herself if she is not a Church that celebrates the Eucharist of Christ.
Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger (1926–2007)

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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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