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Dorothy Day: laywoman, peace activist, Catholic convert, single mother, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement– and perhaps soon, a saint!

The Dorothy Day Guild is an association of the faithful working together to support and advance the cause of canonization for Dorothy Day. Since 2005, the Guild has assisted the official sainthood cause for Dorothy in the Roman Catholic Church and has worked to promote her legacy of Gospel nonviolence and voluntary poverty.

About the Dorothy Day Guild

We are an association of the faithful who work to forward the canonization cause of Dorothy Day, a laywoman, Catholic convert, peace activist, single mother, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement. Founded in 2005, the Guild supports the official sainthood process for Dorothy and promotes her legacy of voluntary poverty and nonviolence and her unique witness to the Gospel.

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The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

- DOROTHY DAY

Graces, Favors, and Miracles

One of the Guild’s responsibilities is to document the help granted through Dorothy Day’s intercession. Nothing should be viewed as too insignificant to report.

With gratitude, we welcome your sharing.

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When I look at the world for examples of how to act, I am drawn to people who are deeply committed to the well-being of other people. Many people, myself included, have high ideals about equality and protection of the poor and vulnerable, but what set Dorothy Day apart was her commitment to these ideals, even though actually acting on her ideals met asking nothing for herself and living a life of amazing simplicity that often ran counter to her own prosperity and pleasure.

In my short life so far, I have started to pursue work that I hope will help reduce the damage that climate change is causing to humans across the globe. The climate crisis was not something people were thinking about for most of Dorothy Day's life, but the way she lived and encouraged others to live is the right answer for a sustainable human life on earth. Her work was not flashy, but it put ordinary people and their basic needs first and that is something we need to keep doing today.

-Anonymous

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I had always wanted to be a writer. A couple of years ago I chanced upon the note in the DD Guild newsletter looking for volunteer transcribers. Did the work for a year and a half, feeling so blessed to make use of long unused fact checking and textual editing skills from decades ago. Felt SO blessed to do her any little favor. Transcribing her words wasn’t the same as writing a book about her, but it got me through one of the toughest years of my life, and I think it was her special answer to my prayer: here, do the work you CAN do.

-Harrington Park, NJ

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Walking on the Little Way

By Casey Mullaney • October 16, 2024

Dear friends and members of the Dorothy Day Guild, Hello! We hope as always that this missive finds each of you well. Here at the Catholic Worker in South Bend, the leaves have started changing in earnest, and as we look ahead to what I always think of as the ‘Autumn Triduum’ of All Hallow’s Eve, All Saints’ Day, and All Souls, I am reminded of how intimately we are connected to our beloved dead and all those who have gone before us in faith. Dorothy is my favorite exemplar of what the belief in the communion of saints looks like in practice: as a member of Christ’s Mystical Body, Dorothy understood herself to be part of a community which reached back through the generations and extended into the future. She prayed with the saints, asked artists like Ade Bethune to create images of them for the newspaper, and even met with a few in person, receiving communion from St. Pope Paul VI in Rome and receiving a visit from her friend St. Mother Teresa of Kolkata in her home at Maryhouse.

Labor, Love, and Learning

By Casey Mullaney • September 21, 2024

Dear friends and members of the Dorothy Day Guild, Hello, and warm greetings from all of us here at the Guild! We hope that the change of seasons has brought all of your summer projects to a satisfying conclusion, and for those who are now back to school as either students or teachers that the fall semester is off to a great start. I look forward to writing this letter every month, but particularly at the start of the school year when everything feels crisp and renewed. We have so many exciting updates and new resources to share with you this month! First, in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, which began last week in the United States, we are very proud to announce that the main pages of our website are now available in Spanish . You can use the language buttons on our home page to toggle back and forth between English and Spanish. Many thanks to Magdalena Muñoz Pizzulic for her work on this translation. Originally from Chile, Magdalena is a recent graduate of the Master of Theological Studies program at the University of Notre Dame and now lives and works as a member of the St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker community in South Bend, Indiana. Magdalena’s linguistic skills, theological knowledge, and lived commitment to Dorothy’s legacy of nonviolence, voluntary poverty, and hospitality have been invaluable to us in increasing the accessibility of our online resources. As we work to promote Dorothy’s cause for canonization in our global Church, we hope to continue making our Guild’s educational and devotional materials available bilingually, and eventually in other languages as well. Please keep us in your prayers as we continue this work, and for those who live, work, and worship in Spanish-speaking communities, please consider sharing Dorothy’s story with someone new this month!

Food for the Body, Food for the Soul

By Casey Mullaney • August 14, 2024

Updates from the National Eucharistic Congress, reading recs, and some amazing documentary footage.

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Why Join the Dorothy Day Guild?

If you believe in the significance of Dorothy Day's life, joining the Dorothy Day Guild is a direct way to show that you support the cause for her canonization. In turn, the steady growth of Guild membership points to the vitality of grassroots support for the cause and allows us to continue offering free programming and resources to promote Dorothy’s legacy of hospitality, voluntary poverty, and Gospel nonviolence.

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Upcoming Events

Webinar: Dorothy Day and the Saintly Six

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Celebrate Black Catholic History Month and mark the anniversaries of Dorothy's birth and death this November!

Please join us for a conversation on how Dorothy Day and the six Black American Catholics whose causes for canonization are open can offer us a vision of politically-engaged holiness in our present time. Our panelists, Dr.Kim Harris, Deacon Mel Tardy, Joanne Kennedy, and Dr. Andrew Prevot, are each living out this vision in their scholarship, journalism, teaching, and ministry. This panel will be moderated by Dorothy Day Guild co-chair Dr. Kevin Ahern.

Dorothy Day Symposium: Practices of Peace in the Year of Jubilee

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In his announcement of the upcoming 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope, Pope Francis called the faithful to read the signs of the times and to search amongst them for signs of hope. The Holy Father tells us that the first of these must be “the desire for peace in our world, which once more finds itself immersed in the tragedy of war…May the Jubilee remind us that those who are peacemakers will be called ‘children of God’ (Mt 5:9). The need for peace challenges us all, and demands that concrete steps be taken.” Likewise, Pope Francis asks the wider Christian community to offer real signs of hope to the poor at home and across the world whose material needs go unmet. In the life and legacy of Dorothy Day, we read these signs.

We are currently accepting proposals of between 300-500 words to discuss the significance of Day’s legacy in the twenty-first century for a one-day symposium sponsored by the Dorothy Day Guild and the Dorothy Day Center for the Study and Promotion of Social Catholicism on Saturday, March 29th, 2025 on the campus of Manhattan University in the Bronx, NY. This conference is open to scholars at every level and peace practitioners whose life and work have been influenced by Dorothy Day’s legacy. We particularly invite students and members of the Catholic Worker movement to submit proposals for papers, panels, and presentations of creative work. Final presentations and papers should be limited to 20 minutes.

To encourage participation by international participants and to reduce our shared carbon footprint, the symposium will be offered in a hybrid format. Participants may choose to present in-person or over video conferencing.

Please stay tuned for further information on how to register for this event! We look forward to reading your proposals and hope to see many of you in person and online in March!

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A Woman of Conscience, a Saint for Our Time

The Dorothy Day Guild supports and advances the cause for canonization of Dorothy Day, initiated by the Archdiocese of New York as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, and promotes, for the benefit of all people interested in social justice, awareness of Dorothy Day, her writings, the Catholic Worker Movement she co-founded, and her life and witness to the Gospel.

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Bronx, NY 10471

ddg@archny.org