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For an additional list of resources about Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement, see the bibliography.

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On Pilgrimage

By Dorothy Day
Posted in Dorothy Day, Dorothy Day’s Writings
Reading Time: 36 minutes
Summary: Relishes life on the land, saying it is a place to retreat to, find God, and to go forth from as apostles. Summarizes five retreat talks whose focus is to increase the desire for sanctity, to a more complete love of God. Gives examples of her failure to love and the struggle to renew love of God and neighbor. (DDLW #482).
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On Pilgrimage

By Dorothy Day
Posted in Dorothy Day, Dorothy Day’s Writings
Reading Time: 26 minutes
Summary: Describes the hustle and bustle around the farm–planting, building, cooking. Ruminates about conversion, calling each person to a revolution beginning with themselves–to make a start toward a new way of living based on distributism. Says distributism is neither communism nor capitalism but based on individual ownership of land, tools, workshops, and factories. Keyword: economics (DDLW #481).
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Catholic Worker Movement

By Dorothy Day
Posted in Dorothy Day, Dorothy Day’s Writings
Reading Time: 30 minutes
Summary: Praises God for May, the month of Mary and full of beauty. Recalls the Catholic Worker began in May sixteen years ago and summarizes their program and the many allied movements of the lay apostolate. Says their pacifism and distributism distinguishes them from other movements. Focuses on voluntary poverty as exemplified in Peter Maurin’s life, especially since he became ill. Reflects on holiness and the call to all to become saints. Includes quotations from her winter’s reading. Keywords: Gandhi, machine, philosophy of work (DDLW #480).
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Letter from Dorothy Day to Frater Charles, 24 June 1955
Courtesy: Marquette University: Dorothy Day – Catholic Worker Collection