Contemplative in the Mud

Death-Blows and Life

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Benjamin Embley

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All the Fathers of the Church agree that there is no better occupation in the spiritual life [than contemplation, the presence of God]; they themselves practised it. This life-giving presence should, however, be accompanied by death-blows to self. These two exercises go hand in hand.
Saint Jane Frances de Chantal

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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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