Every time I give away something I can get along without - every time I manage to see Christ’s presence in the face of a stranger - there again I owe a debt to Dorothy Day.” Every time I try to overcome meanness or selfishness rising up in myself, it is partly thanks to the example of Dorothy Day. Seventeen years after Day’s death in 1980, her granddaughter wrote in The Catholic Worker, the newspaper Day and Peter Maurin founded in 1933 at the height of the Depression: “To have known Dorothy means spending the rest of your life wondering what hit you. On the one hand, she has given so many of us a home, physically and spiritually on the other, she has shaken our very foundations.”įorest, who not only worked with Day but had access to her writings and private papers in the preparation of the book, writes, “Whenever I think about the challenges of life in the bright light of the Gospel rather than in the gray light of money or the dim light of politics, her example has had its influence. Day was someone who struggled with her faith in her early life, made some terrible mistakes, but then did something extraordinary with her life for the love of God that touched the lives of hundreds of thousands.
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