Send a Petition

admin • February 6, 2015

 

The Dorothy Day Guild is collecting physical petitions in support of the cause for Day’s canonization. If you can, please follow the link, print out the petition, fill it out and mail it in. Petitions will become part of the documentation forwarded to the Vatican offices that oversee the canonization process:   http://dorothydayguild.org/support/sign-petition/

 

Archived Comments

Blandina Asesor says:

February 19, 2016 at 8:06 am

I gave a petition cards to one of my very sick and difficult patients and Dorothy had been one of her comforts.She even talked to her via the picture on the card.A saint of our time,in this Jubilee Year of Mercy,Dorothy Day.

ancomanach@gmail.com says:

December 29, 2015 at 5:41 pm

DOROTHY DAY-

PATRON SAINT

OF THE WORKING CLASS.

~~~

Dear Dorothy, servant of God,

Please intercede for us

So that the love of Christ-

He for us and we for Him-

Will transform the world

Into a society in accordance

With the will of Our Eternal

Labouring Father.

~

Thus by the Grace of God’s

Holy Spirit flooding the hearts

Of humanity via the hands

Of Our Lady may love reign

And justice and equality

Exist for all of human kind.

An objective which communism

And other political ‘isms’ have attacked

Via generating divisions used for the

Purpose of personal and sectional

Interests and not that of humanity

As a whole.


Liam Ó Comáin,Derry City,Ireland.

Carmina Chapp says:

February 7, 2015 at 4:02 pm

I was assigned to read The Long Loneliness in my senior year at Notre Dame, just as I was going out into the world. Dorothy Day showed me it was possible to give my life to Christ in our world today. Isn’t that what saints do for us?

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