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Wisdom for the day – Elder Amphilocios Makris

August 13, 2014

Love giving hospitality, my child, for it opens the gates of Paradise.

In this you also offer hospitality to angels.

“Entertain strangers so that you won’t be a stranger to God.”

The saints submitted to whatever God sent them, with childlike simplicity, “That’s the way You want it. Let Your will be done.”

Hospitality… the greatest of virtues.

It draws the grace of the Holy Spirit towards us.

In every stranger’s face, my child, I see Christ himself.

Elder Amphilocios Makris

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