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Active – But Buried in Contemplation

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Benjamin Embley

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ElisabethHave you not found that while we are active and appear to be filling Martha’s role, the soul can remain buried in contemplation, like Magdalene, like a thirsty man near the fountain?
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity (1880–1906)

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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 One Thing Necessary | Contemplative in the Mud

    […] doesn’t appear to have been God’s will). Action is not incompatible with contemplation. The one thing necessary is not some sort of dichotomy. If we still experience a contrast between action and contemplation, it is not because we are not […]

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