Day on the Web: Jim Forest, Reflections on Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement
September 27, 2013
From back in 2008, the text of a talk by Jim Forest on the Houston Catholic Worker website:
http://cjd.org/2008/08/01/reflections-on-dorothy-day-and-the-catholic-worker-movement/
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Dear friends and members of the Dorothy Day Guild, We hope that this missive finds you well on the feast of St. Scholastica, twin sister to St. Benedict and the founder of the first Benedictine monastic community for women. Taught by Peter Maurin, who loved the communitarian spirit of the Benedictine monks and nuns, and the esteem in which they held hospitality and manual labor, Dorothy took an early interest in the Benedictine tradition.
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