Contemplative in the Mud

Contemplate the Christ-Child

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Benjamin Embley

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At Our Lady of Perpetual Help Minor Seminary in Sriracha, Thailand

He was a little infant like any other with nothing unusual about him, just a little infant like you yourself were, without much charm those first hours and first days. He became a tiny baby crying from the cold as he lay there on the straw in a state of total helplessness which he took on out of love. That is how our God first appeared, and he wants to be contemplated and adored in this state…
Little Sister Magdeleine (1898–1989)

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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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    sandyfaithking

    This is just what I have been thinking about – and it made me realise a little more why Catholics revere Jesus’ mother, Mary (I not being Catholic). God entrusted Himself totally into the young mother’s arms. What a mother she must have been!

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      Ben (เบ็น)

      =)

      I think that, no matter what Protestants and Catholics think about Mary, we should probably agree that God wasn’t making a crazy mistake in entrusting Jesus to her (and Joseph). =)

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