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Hospitality of the Heart

by Fr. David May

By August 5, 2019November 23rd, 2023No Comments

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Catherine Doherty always tried to create a cozy, homelike atmosphere in every house she founded, and we are trying to continue doing this wherever we go.

This atmosphere has to do with bearing witness to the warmth of Christ’s heart, to his special compassion for the poor, and to the healing of the wounds in those rejected or counted for little by society.

For these, our houses offer a personal and cheerful welcome. Catherine’s word for it was “hospitality of the heart.”

This hospitality must be for everyone. Unless the whole world is welcome, so to speak, and ministered to, our hospitality is an empty show. Unless we are prepared to take to our brothers and sisters what we receive in a place like this, it is an impious charade.

That is why the whole world seems to come into our house, and through our “blue doors,” wherever these might be.

Excerpted from Restoration, January 2007

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