Contemplative in the Mud

Virtues Learned through Seeing Jesus in our Neighbours

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Benjamin Embley

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VanAfter having learned to contemplate Jesus hidden in my brothers and living out his life in the activities of each one in particular, I no longer felt any repugnance in learning, close to my brothers, the practice of virtue. Rather, I was happy to behave like them.
Little Brother Marcel Văn CSsR (1928–1959)

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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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    Little Brother Michael

    YES! This is the other half of contemplation/ Incarnation/ along with Transcendence and Solitude! Thanks!

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