Contemplative in the Mud

They Are Your Glory

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Benjamin Embley

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In the Mass readings for the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart in the Latin Rite today, we read from Ephesians 3:8–12 and 14–19.

I actually really like verse 13 (the one that is skipped): “I pray therefore that you may not lose heart over my sufferings for you; they are your glory.”

This is an amazing statement of the value of suffering and of the presence of the Communion of Saints. What we suffer in love of another becomes (part of) the other’s glory.

I understand that it makes sense to remove this verse from the flow of today’s Mass reading. But it’s also worth it to go back and reflect on this verse in our own time.

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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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