Contemplative in the Mud

The Ordinary Way of Holiness

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Benjamin Embley

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Since the virtues find their ultimate perfection in the gifts, and the gifts reach their perfect actuation in contemplation, it results that contemplation is ordinary ‘way’ of sanctity and of habitually heroic virtue.
An approved conclusion of the Carmelite (Teresian) Congress of Madrid (1923)

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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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