Her Words: Series
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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