Sacred Hospitality Leadership and Service Dr Thomas Maier

Sacred Hospitality, Leadership and Service Dr. Thomas Maier

Hospitality • Who is in need and what do they need? Who isn’t included and how can they be welcomed? Who doesn’t seem to have a voice and what will help them to be heard? • An ethic of exchange drives hospitality; compassionate reciprocity needed to cope with our vulnerabilities. “The recollection of being an outsider and subsequently being welcomed provides an impetus to empathize with other outsiders. Out of abundance of having received a gift, a place to call home, the gift of receiving others is made possible. ” Reynolds

Hospitality • The openness and invitation to reconciliation can be a most hospitable act. • Hospitality is rooted in approachability, it is manifest in a deeper and broader openness to receive all God’s people, whoever they are, and in whatever circumstances they find themselves. • Hospitality is to welcome strangers as worthy of household membership, blurring the lines between guest and host. “Love of God and love of neighbor have become one: in the least of the brethren we find Jesus himself, and in Jesus we find God. ” St. Benedict

Hospitality- Table Grace

Welcoming the Stranger United Arab Emirates

Sense of Place Dominican Republic

Table Elegance Vegas-Paris-Versailles

Sacred Symbolism “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me a drink, a stranger and you welcomed me" (Matt 25: 35)

Leadership Transformational Leadership • Those in leadership roles in today’s society are challenged to operate in business, societal and cultural environments with true motives. Approaches • Servant Leadership ( Greenleaf, 1977) • Vincentian Leadership Model (Tavanti, 2005)

Leadership Realms Individual level – Knowledge, growth, work/life balance Cultural level – Inspiration, advocacy, accompaniment Organizational level – Performance, transformation, teamwork, “The great test of leadership is the capacity for the works to continue and flourish when the leader is no longer there. ” Louise Sullivan

Servant Leadership “(Greenleaf) Accompaniment Jesuit-Refugee Service Growth of People Personal, professional and spiritual focus on others Personalize Openness to Others Benedictine Hospitality Empowerment Vincentian Mission To Serve

Values Based Leadership Vincentian Leadership Model: • Vincent’s leadership rooted in his virtues of simplicity, humility, meekness, mortification and zeal (. • Service, mission, task and people orientation (Tavanti, 2005). • Vincent possessed skills of a CEO; delegated effectively, ensured quality control, calculated and managed risks, secured funding creatively, maintained mission driven operations (Mc. Kenna, 2001 ) “Let us love God, my brethren, let us love God, but let this be at the expense of our arms, and in the sweat of our brows. ” St. Vincent de Paul

The top-down and down-up Vincentian leadership pyramids reflect the integration of masculinity and feminine leadership traits (Tavanti, 2005). 13

The Contexts of Vincentian Leadership (Tavanti, 2005) 14

Serving Others • Serving others is based on a willingness to receive others when they are in need, an authentic desire towards leadership and service toward others, and a specific orientation towards personal fulfillment and social justice. • The difference between transformational and servant leader is the focus of the leader; transactional leaders engage followers to meet organizational objectives– servant leaders focus on providing service to their followers. “Real servanthood is a leadership style that relies upon the influence of selfgiving without self-glory. ” Stone, Russell, & Patterson

Sacred Hospitality • The story of Job declaring that every sojourner will not pass the night without shelter (Job 31: 32). • The etymology of accompaniment is that of breaking bread with someone, and so it is built on the twin ideas of hospitality and sharing a meal. The biblical roots clearly demonstrate this twin foundation as a religious duty (Jesuit Refugee service). • Abraham ran to meet the guests standing at the entrance of his tent, for he recognized that “sometimes we may entertain angels without knowing it. ” (Genesis 18) • In modern Bedouin culture, too, it is clear that a host is “blessed by the guests” (Hebrews 13: 2)

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