[…] Hospitality is likewise part of our shared witness of faith in daily life. The
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which begins tomorrow, shows us this
ecumenical virtue, and indeed recommends it to us. “They showed us unusual
kindness” (Acts 28:2) as we read in the Acts of the Apostles, with reference to
the inhabitants of the island of Malta, who received with hospitality the Apostle
Paul, together with hundreds of shipwrecked people. […]