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After 17 years of service, the Catholic Worker Farm (Hertfordshire, England) is seeking help to pay off the remaining £300,000 that it owes on the farm.
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The new Dorothy Day Tampa Hospitality House will provide critical services such as showers, laundry, mail collection, computer access, coffee, and community meals, as well as compassion and respite.
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The Uganda Catholic Worker Community, currently homeless after eviction from its Kiboga district location, is appealing for $56,000 in donations. The funds will be used to purchase a house, a key step in their plan for self-sustainabilit
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Decries money spent on armaments that should beffor care of the poor. Appeals “for loaves and fishes, or money to buy them.” Reaffirms Holy Poverty for themselves in solidarity with the poor they serve. Receiving no salary, some workers take part-time jobs to support themselves. (DDLW #592) The Catholic Worker, Oct/Nov 1978, p. 2
ByDorothy Day
Summary: A yearly appeal for funds from readers. Discusses the poverty of the Catholic Worker and the purpose of that poverty in relation to Christ. Links the appeal for funds to the begging of St. Francis and the giving of funds to our love of God. Keywords: folly of the cross (DDLW #581) The Catholic Worker, Oct/Nov 1977, p. 2
ByDorothy Day
Summary: An appeal for funds for their work. Confined to bed, she describes the hubbub of children and guests around her. Although they raise a lot of food, they still need to buy other provisions, including tea, for “the line.” (DDLW #916) The Catholic Worker, Oct/Nov 1976, p. 2
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Speaks of loneliness and how community dispels it, even though quarrels sometimes erupt. Explains where the title of her autobiography, The Long Loneliness, came from. (DDLW #564) The Catholic Worker, Oct/Nov 1975, p. 2
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Records the trials and financial costs of meeting city building codes on a new house for homeless women, and asks for prayers and continued financial support. (DDLW #544) The Catholic Worker, Oct/Nov 1974, p. 2
ByDorothy Day
Summary: An appeal to readers to sustain the Catholic Worker in a time of need. Also a message of thanks for the assistance and love given in the past. (DDLW #535) The Catholic Worker, Oct/Nov 1973, p. 2
ByDorothy Day
Summary: While appealing for help, she extols the constant stream of young volunteers who come to the CW, “as to a school,” preparing them for careers in line with the works of mercy. Notes their folly and reliance on the “little way” of St. Therese. (DDLW #524) The Catholic Worker, Oct/Nov 1972, p. 2
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Tells of bare cupboards and comments on hunger in the world. Says the war in Laos and Cambodia is producing “a reflected violence at home.” Quotes St. Augustine on giving what is superfluous to the poor and that giving be combined with respect for others. (DDLW #514) The Catholic Worker, Oct/Nov 1971, p. 2
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Recalls the beginnings of their food line and the comradeship in cooking and serving “sturdy soup” and bread, and the occasional dangers in their work. (DDLW #508) The Catholic Worker, Mar/Apr 1971, p. 2.
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Appeals for funds saying, “All small gifts add up, and we surely need them” Mentions the death of two Catholic Workers and anticipates a two-month trip around the world noting she has seen the poor of the world, “literally.” (DDLW #930) The Catholic Worker, Oct/Nov 1970, p. 2
ByDorothy Day
Summary: An appeal for funds. She says they have enough for a month or two and reminds us that we will receive as we measure our gifts. (DDLW #904) The Catholic Worker, October 1969, p. 2
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Notes the signs of spring, the bustle of hospitality, and energy of youthful volunteers. Makes an appeal for aid, “We are beggars for the poor.” (DDLW #897) The Catholic Worker, March 1969, p. 2
ByDorothy Day
Summary: An appeal for help on the mortgages for their new house on Christie Street. Reminds us that love of the poor requires an act of faith, as sometimes love is a hard struggle. (DDLW #890) The Catholic Worker, October 1968, p. 2
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Asks for aid describing their crowded tenement, and notes the coming and going of the young as well as the needs of older long-term guests. Looks for signs of spring after a hard winter. In spite of poverty she admits how acquisitive they can be for books, time, and loving kindness. (DDLW #864). The Catholic Worker, March 1968, 2.
ByDorothy Day
Summary: An appeal for money. Notes their hospitality for the families of migrants, for pickets in the grape boycott, and the many apartments they rent. “Even as I am writing this a woman comes to borrow twenty-five dollars. She does this every so often and it usually is a dire need.” (DDLW #856) The Catholic Worker, November 1967, p. 2
ByDorothy Day
Summary: An appeal for money to carry on the work of hospitality, and to buy and repair an old house. Compares the CW approach to the city and states’ way. Notes that Jesus tells us to ask for what we need, and that our Heavenly Father knows what we need. (DDLW #251) The Catholic Worker, Mar/Apr1967, p. 2
ByDorothy Day
Summary: She asks for help—“It is hard to be a beggar.” Admires the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, Gandhi, and Peter Maurin. In contrast, the “destitute and dissolute” are often despised as “bums” in the city, and we fail to see “the sacred element in every human being.” (Simone Weil) (DDLW #844) The Catholic Worker, Oct/Nov 1966, p. 2
