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Contemplation, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, and Love

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Benjamin Embley

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René VoillaumeIn the realm of charity is situated the essential predisposition to the grace of contemplation. This is, of course, normal, since contemplation is in us the free domain of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, of which the development is correlative to that of charity.
René Voillaume LBJ (1905–2003)

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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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    The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit in the Active and Contemplative Life | Contemplative in the Mud

    […] of the seven Gifts’ importance. That’s normal. But as we carry on, we discovered that the growth of charity is correlative to the growth of the Gifts in us. If we know what the seven Gifts look like, we may see them more and more as we go on. We […]

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