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Greater and Greater Union of Action and Contemplation

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Benjamin Embley

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I notice in some souls – there are not many because of our sins – that the more they advance in this kind of prayer [contemplation] and the gifts of our Lord, the more attention they pay to the needs of their neighbour.
Saint Teresa of Jesus

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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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    David and Goliath | Contemplative in the Mud

    […] When all is over, Jonathan is in wonder and is bound to David. They make a covenant. Now, Jonathan is another soul. Jonathan is our neighbour. David and Jonathan are neighbours, bound tightly together because of the suffering of divine things, because of the virtues, and because of the ever-growing interrelation of action and contemplation. […]

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