Contemplative in the Mud

Christian Asceticism

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Benjamin Embley

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Jean-Marie LustigerGod became man. Flesh spoke by the Word. It follows from this that Christian asceticism, far from being a despising of the body, assigns to it, on the contrary, its true destiny. It is the temple of the Spirit.
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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