Tag: Dorothy Day
Read Good Books
Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good books. They tell too of days of striving and of strife. They are of other centuries and also of our own. They make us realize that all times are perilous, that men live in a dangerous world, in peril constantly of losing or maiming soul and body. We get some sense of perspective reading such books. Renewed courage and faith and even joy to live.
Dorothy Day
Delight
I be
lieve we are called to the duty of delight.
- Dorothy Day
Change comes from actions, not votes
By Brendan Walsh, Viva House Baltimore Catholic Worker. Reposted from The Baltimore Sun.
It is noteworthy that November 8 is Election Day and Dorothy Day’s 110th birthday. Dorothy was co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement and is currently on track for sainthood in the Catholic tradition.
Long before Dorothy was involved with the worker movement she was a journalist writing for The Call and The Masses in New York City. She was also a suffragette advocating for the right of all women to vote. She was arrested at the White House demanding that right and went on a bitter hunger strike while imprisoned in Occoquan, Va. Continue reading “Change comes from actions, not votes”
Tradition
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington. – Dorothy Day
Problems
Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system
– attributed to Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day’s anarchism is the antidote to disappointing political system
By Brian Terrell, Re-posted from NRC Today
“When one mentions Dorothy Day, one thinks automatically of the Catholic Worker Movement, the religious organization that she founded to help alleviate poverty and injustice. But few people know that Dorothy Day was also a committed suffragist who endured torture and mistreatment at the hands of the jailors in Occoquan Prison in Virginia after being arrested for picketing the White House.” So said the Long Island Woman Suffrage Association when they proclaimed her “Suffragist of the Month.” Continue reading “Dorothy Day’s anarchism is the antidote to disappointing political system”
Bread
“I never expected much of the bishops, in all history, popes and bishops and abbots seem to have been blind and power-loving and greedy. I never expected leadership from them. It is the saints that keep appearing all through history who keep things going. What I do expect is the bread of life and down through the ages there is that continuity.”
– Dorothy Day
Love from Dorothy Day on St. Valentine’s Day
What we would like to do is change the world- make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to do. And, by fighting for better conditions, by crying our unceasingly for the rights of the workers, the poor, of the destitute- the rights of the worthy and the unworthy poor, in other words- we can, to a certain extent change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in a pond and be confident that its ever-widening circle will reach around the world. We repeat, there is nothing we can do but love, ad dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to loveour neighbor, to love our enemy as our friend.”
Dorothy Day
As casual as all that
“We were just sitting there talking when Peter Maurin came in. We were just sitting there talking when lines of people began to form, saying, “We need bread.” We could not say, “Go, be thou filled.” If there were six small loaves and a few fishes, we had to divide them. There was always bread. We were just sitting there talking and people moved in on us. Let those who can take it, take it. Some moved out and that made room for more. And somehow the walls expanded. We were just sitting there talking and someone said, “Let’s all go live on a farm.” It was as casual as all that, I often think. It just came about. It just happened. “
Dorothy Day
Radical Discipleship 