Contemplative in the Mud

More Than if You Fasted for a Thousand Years

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Benjamin Embley

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VanMarcel: What can I do to prove my love?
Jesus: Little brother, first of all, accept all the little inconveniences that I send you and, by that, you will please me more than if you fasted for a thousand years.
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.

2 responses to “More Than if You Fasted for a Thousand Years”

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    l.b. Michael St. Jacques

    Thank you Little Brother Marcel and Little Brother Ben! Have a Blessed Great Fast/Lent!
    l.b. Michael

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      Contemplative in the Mud

      Thanks, Little Brother Michael! You too.

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