Dorothy Day’s Jan 48 reflections on one of her favorites gospel texts: “Unless the seed fall into the ground and die, itself remaineth alone. But if it die it bringeth forth much fruit. So I don’t expect any success in anything we are trying to do, either in getting out a paper

Mar 21, 2021 · 5:14 PM UTC

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...running houses of hospitality or farming groups...I expect that everything we do be attended with human conflicts, and the suffering that goes with it, and that this suffering will water the seed to make it grow in the future. I expect that all our natural love for each other
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...which is so warming and so encouraging and so much a reward of this kind of work and living, will be killed, put to death painfully by gossip, intrigue, suspicion, distrust, etc., and that this painful dying to self and the longing for the love of others will be rewarded...
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...by a tremendous increase of supernatural love amongst us all. I expect the most dangerous of sins cropping up amongst us...but that the struggle will go on...God will not let it hinder the work but that work will go on because that work is our suffering and our sanctification.
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Replying to @RobertEllsberg
That’s beautiful, Robert. Thank you. It’s connected in my mind with a less evidently spiritual remark she liked to make, or at least I’ve read that she did, namely, that all strikes fail except the last one.
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