Contemplative in the Mud

Transfiguration Takes All but Remains the Secret of God

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Benjamin Embley

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Thérèse and Charles

The transfiguration of man takes in all the aspects of life. Contemplation gives to man a face of plenitude… There are some beings who manifest this unification. The face of Father de Foucauld is a sort of integration of the whole man. Other faces translate that the eschatological experience is in process but not finished: for example, Saint Thérèse… her face half unified on one side, half in anguish and tragic on the other. Transfiguration remains the secret of God.
Marie-Joseph Le Guillou OP (1920–1990)

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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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