Hospitality
The practice of offering food, lodging, and companionship — especially episcopal hospitality extended to clergy and guests. Lapide enjoyed Van der Burch's hospitality and table companionship for many years, reading through ten or twelve chapters of Genesis at a single meal.
Preliminaries
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TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI.
— Lapide made "free and generous use" of Van der Burch's hospitality and table companionship for many years while serving as confessor.
"I made free and generous use of your hospitality and table companionship for many years"
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TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI.
— Table conversation during Lapide's visits was devoted to reading and discussing Genesis, sometimes ten or twelve chapters at a single meal.
"you recall that at a single meal we would read through ten or twelve chapters of Genesis together, and you put to me many difficult questions concerning them"
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TO THE MOST REVEREND AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS LORD HENRY FRANCIS VAN DER BURCH, ARCHBISHOP AND DUKE OF CAMBRAI, PRINCE OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE, COUNT OF CAMBRAI.
— Van der Burch's works of hospitality and mercy are listed among his priestly virtues.
"by persisting in works of hospitality and mercy"