Contemplative in the Mud

Suffering – But Oh! What Joy!

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At Jerónimos Monastery in Lisbon, Portugal

Just as our dear Jesus willed his life here on earth to be ever spent in the midst of hardships, labours, privations, anguish, scorn, calumnies, thorns, and the cruel death of the Cross, so he made me realize that in embracing him, I must live in the midst of suffering. And oh, what joy did my poor soul embrace in every kind of hardship!
Saint Paul of the Cross

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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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