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For readers of "The Benedict Option", here is another invaluable collection of Benedictine wisdom to live by. Today's culture is increasingly hostile and suspicious toward anyone who appears to be different--especially when tragedy strikes. Our instinct is to bolt our doors and protect the ones we love. But deep within the heart of Benedictine spirituality lies a remedy to hatred, fear, and suspicion: hospitality. At once deeply comforting and sharply challenging, true Benedictine hospitality requires that we welcome the stranger, not only into our homes, but into our hearts. With warmth and humor, drawing from the monastic tradition and sharing personal anecdotes from their own lives, Pratt and Homan encourage us to embrace not only the literal stranger, but the stranger within and the stranger in those we love.… (más)
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All guests who present themselves are to be welcomed as Christ, for he himself will say: "I was a sranger and you welcomed me." - The Rule of St. Benedict 53:1
Once a guest has been announced, the superior and the community are to meet hte guest with all the courtesy of love. - The Rule of St. Benedict 53:3
Great care and concern are to be shown in receiving poor people and pilgrims, because in them more particularly Christ is received.... - The Rule of St. Benedict 53:15
Let us open our eyes to the deifying light, let us hear with attentive ears the warning which the divine voice cries daily to us, "Today if you hear his voice, harden not your hearts." - The Rule of St. Benedict, Prologue 29
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To Br. Benedict Giuliani, O.S.B.; an inspiration to us both. To my mother, Mary Elizabeth Brennan Homan, Irish to the core. My father was German and she loved him, but she always told us that our hearts were Irish. Who knows? Between them they taught us, long before I ever heard of St. Benedict, to see the Christ in everyone. To my husband, David, who never forgets how to love.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Maybe you are happiest when sharing your table, or your space, with a guest.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
It is the way of hospitality, the way of life, and it is, in this remote place where we have awakened to find ourselves, the only way home.
For readers of "The Benedict Option", here is another invaluable collection of Benedictine wisdom to live by. Today's culture is increasingly hostile and suspicious toward anyone who appears to be different--especially when tragedy strikes. Our instinct is to bolt our doors and protect the ones we love. But deep within the heart of Benedictine spirituality lies a remedy to hatred, fear, and suspicion: hospitality. At once deeply comforting and sharply challenging, true Benedictine hospitality requires that we welcome the stranger, not only into our homes, but into our hearts. With warmth and humor, drawing from the monastic tradition and sharing personal anecdotes from their own lives, Pratt and Homan encourage us to embrace not only the literal stranger, but the stranger within and the stranger in those we love.
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