Her Words: Series

admin • Apr 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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SOWING SEEDS, Creative Spirits

By Claire Schaeffer-Duffy and Scott Schaeffer-Duffy • 26 Apr, 2024
Sharing life with the poor in crowded row houses in a neighborhood where crack cocaine flowed freely was not for everyone. It was eventually not for us. One night at dinner, Carl noted that every man at the table had punched him or Scott at least once. The mayhem we once found exhilarating now exhausted us. Like many Catholic Worker couples, we fell in love while working at the houses. We got married in Washington, DC in 1984 on the feast of a married saint, Thomas More, and then moved to Worcester, Massachusetts. We found a cheap apartment and took jobs that gave us flexibility to focus on anti-nuclear activism. To keep life simple, we decided to do no hospitality. That decision did not hold. Shortly after our first child, Justin, was born, Scott served a thirty-day jail sentence for a protest against nuclear weapons. While in jail, he met an inmate who was due to be released before Christmas. Since Kenny had nowhere to go, we took him into our apartment until he could get settled. Hosting him reminded us that we liked the Catholic Worker’s unique combination of the works of mercy with the works of peace and justice. Together with three friends, we spent several months in prayer and discussion to discern the possibility of forming an intentional community. As part of our discernment, we gradually began to incorporate Catholic Worker practices. We ate together weekly and joined a local vigil against nuclear weapons. Inspired by the journalism of Dorothy Day, we began publishing the Catholic Radical, a newsletter that continues to this day. In the summer of 1986, our family moved into a large inner-city apartment with Dan Ethier and Sarah Jeglosky and started the Saints Francis & Thérèse Catholic Worker. 

SAVED BY BEAUTY, Artists of Hope

By Carolyn Zablotny • 26 Apr, 2024
Bro. Martin Erspamer, OSB and Bro. Michael (Mickey) McGrath, OSFS are both liturgical artists, widely recognized for their creative work. Meeting in the pages of the Guild’s newsletter, they bring an artistry and open-heartedness long associated with Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker.

GOOD TALK, Charles E. Moore on How to Live in Community

By Gabriella Wilke • 26 Apr, 2024
Gabriella Wilke : Dorothy Day believed that the only answer to loneliness in this life is community. You have responded to the call, living as a member of the Bruderhof. What sparked your passion for community?
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