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Your Sorrow Shall be Changed into Joy

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Benjamin Embley

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This is the road to Heaven, let us walk in it… “Amen, amen, I say to you that you shall lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice: and you shall be made sorrowful, but your sorrow shall be turned into joy…” (Jn 6:20). These are our Lord’s words… wait patiently until you see our Lord, who will come sooner than you expect Him.
Saint John of Ávila

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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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    […] implication is there in letters to her brother; and meanwhile, John seems to get more explicit in linking all this to the nugget of the Gospel: “your sorrow shall be turned into Joy” (Jn 6:20), though it is less clear whether he […]

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