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Our Work: Hospitality
 Continue to love each other like
brothers, and remember always to welcome strangers, for by
doing this, some people have entertained angels without
knowing it. Hebrews 13, 1-2
Watching the sunset from a different part of the globe
everyday one might imagine the life of a seafarer has a
touch of romance about it, but today nothing could be
further from the truth. It is a hard life and seafarers turn
to the
Stella Maris Seafarers' Centres simply for someone to talk to, laugh in the
company of, and cry with.
Caring for the People of the Sea
Seafarers and fishers are of every nationality and
language. Though they go to sea for many different reasons
many go out of sheer economic desperation, often supporting
extended families. They are away from their homes, their
families and friends, for months perhaps years on end.
Their
whole existence is strenuous often frightening, and a very
lonely one. They are family men and women with simple
stories to tell. Sometimes the stories are of hope but often
they are tales of solitude and despair.
Those who practise charity in
the Church’s name will never seek to impose the Church’s
faith upon others. They realise that a pure and generous
love is the best witness to the God in whom we believe and
by whom we are driven to love. A Christian knows when it is
time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing
and to let love alone speak. Deus Caritas Est Para 31
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The King will say:
...come, you whom my Father has
blessed, take as your heritage the kingdom prepared for you
since the foundation of the world.
For I was hungry and you gave me
food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger
and you made me welcome, naked and you clothed me,
sick and you visited me, in prison and you came to see me.
. . .and the King will answer
In truth I tell you, in so far
as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of
mine, you did it to me. (Mt 25: 34-40) |
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