Service and Hospitality: Ambrose of Milan: Duties of the Clergy to Serve
Teaching on Service and Hospitality from Ambrose of Milan: Ambrose of Milan: Duties of the Clergy to Serve
This is a spiritual discipline on justice and mercy, drawing on Micah 6:8, James 2:15-17 and Proverbs 3:27-28.
Ambrose of Milan (d. 397) wrote "On the Duties of the Clergy" as a Christian counterpart to Cicero's "De Officiis." He argued that Christian service must exceed even the best pagan models of civic duty: "Mercy is a part of justice, and that mercy is the fullest justice; for mercy assists the one who is in need, and justice gives to each their due."…
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