A Refugee’s Feast: the story of Maria Skobtsova with Amy Frykholm
Apr 3, 2024
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Expert Amy Frykholm discusses the life of St. Maria Skobtsova, from her aristocratic beginnings to her heroic acts and sacrifice during WWII. The podcast dives into Maria's resilience, compassion, and dedication to serving refugees, highlighting her values of love and inclusivity.
Maria Skobtsova's life showcased the transformative power of material care and creativity in addressing needs.
She emphasized creating welcoming spaces and communities rooted in true hospitality and openness to the world.
Deep dives
The Life of Maria Scopsova
Maria Scopsova, an Orthodox saint, lived a remarkable life from her aristocratic upbringing in Riga, Latvia to her marriage, theological studies, and subsequent formation of houses of hospitality in Paris. She embraced a life of hospitality and service, feeding and caring for refugees with a spirit of spontaneity and creativity. Maria's journey led her to create welcoming spaces and communities of action, rooted in the belief of loving one's neighbor as oneself.
Transformation Through Creativity
Maria Scopsova's approach to feeding people, using discarded resources creatively, highlighted the transformative power of material care. Her life was marked by experimentation and creativity in all aspects, from making curtains to hosting engaging conversations. She believed in the inherent spirituality of addressing material needs and saw life as a canvas for messy, impossible art.
Building Communities of Welcome and Action
Maria Scopsova's legacy extended beyond individual acts to organizing communities of action and deepening connections through welcoming gestures. She focused on creating spaces where people could be met as themselves and emphasized openness to the world. Her teachings underscored the importance of true welcome and receptivity as foundational to the spiritual life.
Welcome to In Search Of, a podcast where we go in search of voices and perspectives that inform and expand a life of faith. In this episode, Amy introduces us to St. Maria Skobtsova, who studied theology and practiced hospitality from St. Petersburg in 1917, to Paris in the 1930s, until her death in a Nazi concentration camp in the 1940s. Learn which aspects of her life make her a personal saint for Amy on the season finale of In Search Of.
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