IN OUR TIME : Volume 2 (digital), Issue 1

October 7, 2024


IN OUR TIME


Newsletter of the

Dorothy Day Guild

The Community Issue

Volume 2 (digital) Issue 1

Fall 2024

Brother Mickey McGrath, OSFS,
Love and Beauty Will Embrace, Justice and Peace Will Kiss

FOR MORE TO READ


and in the tradition of the Catholic Worker to help “clarify thought,” here are some other articles that explore community:

On walking with friends
How to Eat a Tire in a Year
(Our thanks to David Sedaris and the
New Yorker)
 

On well-being and connection

The most important thing you can do to live longer

(Our thanks to Juna Gjata and the team at Food, We Need to Talk)

 

 On being “good” and the Catholic Worker

The Maurin Mandate: Catholic Communitarianism in a Nutshell
(Our thanks to Colin Miller and
Church Life Journal)

 

On the work of imagination

Dreaming as a single family: A reflection on the Pope’s Encyclical

(Our thanks to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Vanguard News)


On the presence of God

“Martha Hennessy addresses 10th National Eucharistic Congress”

(Our thanks to Martha Hennessy and the Catholic Worker)


On the beloved community 

“Legion of Mary”

(Our thanks to Mary Gordon and Commonweal



It's YOU who ground the cause...

Becky McIntyre, Building a New Society in the Shell of the Old

...and keep it moving!

Thank you for your continued generosity.

DEAR READERS:

We know you care about Dorothy Day.
But do you know that we care about your
thoughts, concerns, and hopes for her Cause?
Your voice makes us the community we
aspire to be: open, engaged, committed.
Let us hear from you!

Contact:  ddg@archny.org 
(subject line: In Our Time)

IN OUR TIME 

Editorial and Production Team
Gabriella Wilke, Guest Editor
Colleen Dulle
Mindy Indy
Vanessa Pereira
Casey Mullaney
Anthony Santella
 
Contributors
Writers:       Colleen Dulle, Carolyn Zablotny, Casey Mullaney, Claire Schaeffer-Duffy and Scott Schaeffer-Duffy, Dorothy Day, Charles E. Moore and Gabriella Wilke
Designer:   Mindy Indy, www.mindyindy.com
Lettering:    Linda Henry Orell
 
Credits
Art:      Becky McIntyre (Building a New Society in the Shell of the Old); Bro. Martin Erspramer, OSB (Good Talk, Breaking Bread, Sowing Seeds, and Signs of Holiness illustrations); Artist Unknown (Saved by Beauty illustration); Rita Corbin (Tree of Life w. Birds, Dispatches illustration); Bro. Mickey McGrath, OSFS (Love and Beauty Will Embrace, Peace and Justice Will Kiss); Ade Bethune (Peace Tree masthead and Vine and Branches border)


Thank you to the executive committee, Kevin Ahern, Deirdre Cornell, George Horton, James Boyle, and Alex Avitabile, for providing resources for the production of In Our Time. And thank you, dear readers and members, for your ongoing support. 

And a special thanks to Toby Mommensen and the Bruderhof community, Dan Mauk, Dottie Bromich, James Hannan and the team at
Commonweal, Krista Hall and St. Meinrad Archabbey, Liturgical Press, St. Catherine University’s Ade Bethune Collection, and Wikimedia Commons for their assistance.

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