Contemplative in the Mud

Pressed to Praise

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Benjamin Embley

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At Santa Cruz Church in Thonburi, Thailand

The heart that is taken and pressed with a desire of praising the divine goodness more that it is able, after many endeavours does oftentimes our of itself, to invite all creatures to help it in its design… So the great Saint Francis [of Assisi] sang the canticle of the sun…
Saint Francis de Sales

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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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