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90 yrs ago on May 1 1933, at a Communist rally in Union Square, Dorothy Day and a small group of friends distributed the first issue of The Catholic Worker newspaper. As the first editorial announced:
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I highly recommend @GiveUsThisDayLP for daily prayer, inspiration and spiritual insight. And @RobertEllsberg’s essays reveal saints, both well known and, at least to me, sometimes not so well know and the blessed lives they had.
In the May issue of @GUTD my “Blessed Among Us” reflections include St Damien of Molokai, civil rights hero Unita Zelma Blackwell, CW co-founder Peter Maurin, historian Cyprian Davis, musician Mary Lou Williams, and more!
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The feast of St. Joseph the Worker, May 1, is also the 90th anniversary of the Catholic Worker. (Art by Fritz Eichenberg). My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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In the May issue of @GUTD my “Blessed Among Us” reflections include St Damien of Molokai, civil rights hero Unita Zelma Blackwell, CW co-founder Peter Maurin, historian Cyprian Davis, musician Mary Lou Williams, and more!
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A philosopher’s reflections on living while dying: “My death is close at hand. But I do not think of myself as dying.” wapo.st/3LFQtvZ
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St Catherine of Siena (1380), Doctor of the Church, who challenged popes and monarchs to make peace, defend justice, and heal the wounds in the church. “Preach the Truth as if you had a million voices. It is silence that kills the world.”
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Ilia DELIO leading a program on Teilhard to Chardin at @mariandale_ny. Live and streaming to 11 retreat houses around the country! @OrbisBooks
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Thanks to the Nautilus Awards! Two of my books tied for the same award (a first for me). Hope Sister Wendy and Dorothy are sharing a cup of tea.
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I may not be in Rome when her canonization occurs. But I will be able to say I was on the inaugural voyage of the Dorothy Day Staten Island ferry.
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AWESOME interview with my amazing @WakeDiv colleague Prof. Liz O'Donnell Gandolfo on her wonderful new book!
My interview with @OrbisBooks author Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo about her new book: ECOMARTYRDOM IN THE AMERICAS: Living and Dying for our Common Home. piped.video/watch?v=ZlrfFGtb…
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On my way for the maiden voyage of the new Staten Island ferry, the #DorothyDay. For anyone wondering about the connection: SI is where Dorothy lived with the man she loved, where her daughter was born, where she found herself beginning to pray and decided to become a Catholic.
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Later it was the site of a Catholic Worker farm. Later still she kept a small house in the Spanish Camp where she liked to escape for rest and reflection.
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And it is there in Resurrection Cemetery that she was buried after her death on Nov 29 1980. Staten Island held deep meaning for her, site of her first beginning and last end and many times in between.
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