Contemplative in the Mud

What is the Value of Interior Silence?

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Benjamin Embley

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Blessed Elizabeth of the TrinityA soul that debates with itself, that is taken up with its feelings, and pursues useless thoughts and desires, scatters its forces, for it is not wholly directed toward God. Its lyre does not vibrate in unison when the divine Master plays it. He cannot draw from it divine harmonies, for it is still too human and discordant…
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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    l.b. Michael St Jacques

    “Apostle” of Silence and Love, Elizabeth of the Trinity, whose message, reverently calls us into the Mystery of Your Presence within us, Father, Son and Holy Spirit work us beyond anything we could ask or imagine.

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