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Sharing Creation’s Joy in the Eucharist

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Benjamin Embley

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At Holy Redeemer Church in Bangkok, Thailand

The earth rejoiced when your body grew wheat (dinkel). The sky celebrated by giving the grass dew, and the birds built nests in your wheat, and the food of the Eucharist was made for all humanity. We feast on it, full of joy.
Saint Hildegard von Bingen

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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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    The Eucharist is Catholic and that Doesn’t Just Mean “Universal” | Contemplative in the Mud

    […] in particular, unleavened bread (if possible) to be catholic. Of course, as Saint Hildegard was fond of pointing out, the whole of creation rejoices in the Eucharist, in its various ways and abilities; but as far as […]

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