Contemplative in the Mud

It is Not Joy Which is Sought

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Benjamin Embley

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Reginald Garrigou-LagrangeIn prayer, we should not seek to feel the gift of God, but should receive it with docility and disinterestedness in the obscurity of faith. Spiritual joy will be added later on to the act of contemplation and love of God; but is is not joy that should be sought, it is God Himself, who is greatly superior to His gifts.
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP (1877–1964)

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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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