Her Words: Series

admin • April 14, 2014

Her Words: Holy Thursday Published April 4, 2014

 

 "On Holy Thursday, truly a joyful day, I was sitting at the supper table at St. Joseph's House on Chrystie Street and looking around at all the fellow workers and thinking how hopeless it was for us to try to keep up appearances."
-Dorothy Day The Catholic Worker, April 1964

 

 

“The main thing is not to hold on to anything.”
-Dorothy Day The Catholic Worker, May 1952

 

Her Words: Trace Published April 10, 2014

"I will try to trace for you the steps by which I came to accept the faith that I believe was always in my heart..."
-Dorothy Day, From Union Square to Rome

 

Her Words: Could Published April 9, 2014

"I feel that I have done nothing well. But I have done what I could."
-Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness

 

Her Words: Write Published March 22, 2014

"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 

Her Words: Seeds Published March 12, 2014

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

 

Her Words: Pruned Published March 9, 2014

"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 be free of responsibility except for our own. Am I my brother's keeper? Or can I be free when other men are enslaved? "
-Dorothy Day, The Catholic Worker, January 1951

 

Her Words: Love Published March 7, 2014

"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 in the hearts of others. And it is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden us. It is love that will make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice and no suffering will then seem too much."

-Dorothy Day, House of Hospitality


Her Words: Easier Published March 6, 2014

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

 

Her Words: Hold Published April 14, 2014

Her Words: The Poor Published March 5, 2014

Words Published November 10, 2013

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Works of Mercy and Works of Peace: A Late-Summer Missive from the Guild

By Casey Mullaney • August 31, 2026
Dear Dorothy Day Guild members and friends, Greetings and peace to each of you, your families, and your communities. As always, we hope this missive finds you well. This month’s update is a quick one, but we have a few invitations for fall events to share with you, as well as some reading and listening recommendations (including a collection of audio recordings of Dorothy’s talks and lectures you may not have heard before!) for the end of the season. Thank you so much for your enthusiastic support for our cause; keep reading to learn more about how you can continue to be involved in the coming months!

Summer Greetings and Canonization Updates

By Casey Mullaney • July 15, 2026
Dear Dorothy Day Guild friends and members, We hope that all of you are well, and for those in the United States, that you had a safe and happy July 4th weekend! Fifty years ago, for America’s Bicentennial anniversary, National Catholic Reporter included a six-page spread of greetings, poetry, and commentary from both ordinary and prominent American Catholics. Dorothy responded to their request for a quote with a one-word message to her country: “Repent.”

Ninety-three years ago today!

By Casey Mullaney • May 1, 2026
Dear members and friends of the Dorothy Day Guild, Greetings to each of you in this fourth week of Easter and on the occasion of the Catholic Worker movement’s 93rd anniversary! On May 1st, 1933, Dorothy, her daughter Tamar, and several others sold the first issue of The Catholic Worker newspaper in Union Square for a penny a copy, and as Dorothy later wrote in The Long Loneliness, “It all happened while we sat there talking, and it is still going on”! It is because of that faithful witness to the Gospel through Dorothy’s practices of nonviolence, hospitality, and voluntary poverty that we get to share in this joyful pilgrimage with you all these years later. Thank you, Dorothy, and happy anniversary to all our Catholic Worker friends, past and present!
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