Service and Hospitality: John Chrysostom: You Are the Priest of Your Home
Teaching on Service and Hospitality from John Chrysostom: John Chrysostom: You Are the Priest of Your Home
This is a spiritual discipline on domestic service and household, drawing on Colossians 3:23-24, Galatians 6:10 and Mark 10:43-45.
John Chrysostom urged ordinary Christians to see their households as sacred spaces of service. He taught: "Make your home a church. You are the priest of your own house. You are responsible not only for yourself but for your servants, your children, your wife." Chrysostom saw domestic service -- cooking, cleaning, caring for children and the elderly -- not as secular drudgery but as priestly ministry.…
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