Service and Hospitality: Gregory the Great on the Servant-Leader
Teaching on Service and Hospitality from Gregory the Great: Gregory the Great on the Servant-Leader
This is a spiritual discipline on servant leadership and compassion, drawing on Mark 10:43-45, John 13:14-15 and Philippians 2:5-8.
Gregory the Great (d. 604) titled himself "Servant of the Servants of God" -- a title still used by popes today. In his "Pastoral Rule," he wrote: "The ruler should be the neighbor of everyone in compassion, and exalted above all in contemplation, so that through the bowels of loving-kindness he may transfer the infirmities of others to himself." Leadership and service, Gregory taught, are inseparable.…
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