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Dorothy Day: laywoman, peace activist, Catholic convert, single mother, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement– and perhaps soon, a saint!
The Dorothy Day Guild is an association of the faithful working together to support and advance the cause of canonization for Dorothy Day. Since 2005, the Guild has assisted the official sainthood cause for Dorothy in the Roman Catholic Church and has worked to promote her legacy of Gospel nonviolence and voluntary poverty.
We are an association of the faithful who work to forward the canonization cause of Dorothy Day, a laywoman, Catholic convert, peace activist, single mother, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement. Founded in 2005, the Guild supports the official sainthood process for Dorothy and promotes her legacy of voluntary poverty and nonviolence and her unique witness to the Gospel.
One of the Guild’s responsibilities is to document the help granted through Dorothy Day’s intercession. Nothing should be viewed as too insignificant to report.
With gratitude, we welcome your sharing.
When I look at the world for examples of how to act, I am drawn to people who are deeply committed to the well-being of other people. Many people, myself included, have high ideals about equality and protection of the poor and vulnerable, but what set Dorothy Day apart was her commitment to these ideals, even though actually acting on her ideals met asking nothing for herself and living a life of amazing simplicity that often ran counter to her own prosperity and pleasure.
In my short life so far, I have started to pursue work that I hope will help reduce the damage that climate change is causing to humans across the globe. The climate crisis was not something people were thinking about for most of Dorothy Day's life, but the way she lived and encouraged others to live is the right answer for a sustainable human life on earth. Her work was not flashy, but it put ordinary people and their basic needs first and that is something we need to keep doing today.
-Anonymous
I had always wanted to be a writer. A couple of years ago I chanced upon the note in the DD Guild newsletter looking for volunteer transcribers. Did the work for a year and a half, feeling so blessed to make use of long unused fact checking and textual editing skills from decades ago. Felt SO blessed to do her any little favor. Transcribing her words wasn’t the same as writing a book about her, but it got me through one of the toughest years of my life, and I think it was her special answer to my prayer: here, do the work you CAN do.
-Harrington Park, NJ
If you believe in the significance of Dorothy Day's life, joining the Dorothy Day Guild is a direct way to show that you support the cause for her canonization. In turn, the steady growth of Guild membership points to the vitality of grassroots support for the cause and allows us to continue offering free programming and resources to promote Dorothy’s legacy of hospitality, voluntary poverty, and Gospel nonviolence.
October 25th, 2024
3:00 PM-5:00 PM
Union Square
Join us for a walking pilgrimage of significant sites in Dorothy’s life and the early years of the Catholic Worker movement on Friday, October 25th. This pilgrimage takes us to the places where Dorothy prayed, protested, and offered the works of mercy for nearly 50 years.
Beginning in Union Square, the pilgrimage route takes about two hours to walk and concludes at Maryhouse, Dorothy Day’s final home. For more information and to view a map, please click here.
Thursday, November 14th, 2024
7:00-8:30 PM Eastern
Zoom!
Celebrate Black Catholic History Month and mark the anniversaries of Dorothy's birth and death this November!
Please join us for a conversation on how Dorothy Day and the six Black American Catholics whose causes for canonization are open can offer us a vision of politically-engaged holiness in our present time. Our panelists, Dr.Kim Harris, Deacon Mel Tardy, Joanne Kennedy, and Dr. Andrew Prevot, are each living out this vision in their scholarship, journalism, teaching, and ministry. This panel will be moderated by Dorothy Day Guild co-chair Dr. Kevin Ahern.
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A Woman of Conscience, a Saint for Our Time
The Dorothy Day Guild supports and advances the cause for canonization of Dorothy Day, initiated by the Archdiocese of New York as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, and promotes, for the benefit of all people interested in social justice, awareness of Dorothy Day, her writings, the Catholic Worker Movement she co-founded, and her life and witness to the Gospel.
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