LIFE TOGETHER: AN INTERACTIVE STUDY OF 1 CORINTHIANS

CONTINUE IN KINDNESS

St. Ambrose of Milan, in his teachings to clergy, gives advice that is applicable to all of us in our relationships with others:

We must strive also to win many by kindnesses and duties that we can do, and to preserve the favor already shown us. For they will with good reason forget the benefits of former times if they are now vexed at some great wrong. For it often enough happens that those one has shown favor to and allowed to rise step by step, are driven away, if one decides in some unworthy way to put another before them. But it is seemly for a priest to show such favor in his kindnesses and his decisions as to guard equity, and to show regard to the other clergy as to parents.