Monthly Archives: March 2014

Her Words: Write

“It would be better still to love, rather than to write about it. It would be more convincing.” -Dorothy Day, To Die for Love, The Catholic Worker, September 1948    

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Report from the Conference: Dorothy Day: A Saint for Our Time

Guild Executive Committee member Geoffrey B. Gneuhs provides us with a report of his experience at the recent conference  “Dorothy Day: A Saint for Our Time”: What we would like to do is change the world…by crying out unceasingly for the rights … Continue reading

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Her Words: Seeds

“We are sowing the seeds of love, and we are not living in the harvest time.” -Dorothy Day, Commonweal 1949

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Her Words: Pruned

“What a paradox it is, this natural life and this supernatural life. We must give up our lives to gain them, we must die to live, be pruned to bear fruit. We want to be free, and we want to … Continue reading

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Her Words: Love

“Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we will bear each other’s faults and burdens. If we love enough, we are going to light that fire … Continue reading

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Her Words: Easier

“God meant things to be much easier than we have made them.” -Dorothy Day, On Pilgrimage, 1948

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Her Words: The Poor

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Website Re-launch

The Dorothy Day Guild is happy to announce the re-launch of its website dorothydayguild.org This year, 2014, marks the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I — “the war to end all wars.”  How poignant that designation in … Continue reading

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