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Stories from the Kitchen Stove

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Benjamin Embley

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Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity

I spent a good day at the kitchen stove. Even though I didn’t go into ecstasy while holding the saucepan handle like Saint Teresa, yet I believed the Master’s presence was there among us, and deep within myself I adored him whom Magdalene had met in the veil of his humanity.
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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