Do Contemplatives Need the Church?

And while we're at it: does the Church need contemplatives?

A post on this blog received the following comment yesterday:

Having been with the Catholic Church and seminary trained for all my 71 years of life . I am naturally contemplative . But I do now believe practising formal meditation/contemplation is false . Aren’t we missing the point if we try and set time aside for contemplation?
Surely if we are made in Gods image we are already suffused with Gods holy grace and we are divinised, so...