Service and Hospitality: Basil the Great on Social Service
Teaching on Service and Hospitality from Basil the Great: Basil the Great on Social Service
This is a spiritual discipline on social service and justice, drawing on Matthew 25:34-40, James 2:15-17 and Isaiah 58:6-7.
Basil the Great (d. 379) built one of the first Christian hospitals -- a vast complex called the "Basiliad" that included a hospice, a poorhouse, and a hospital. He wrote: "The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak in your closet belongs to the naked; the gold you buried in the ground belongs to the poor." For Basil, service was not optional charity but basic justice.…
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