ByDorothy Day
Summary: Stories of life at Peter Maurin Farm—children’s talk of God, her reading, a family needing hospitality, the gift of a cow, a visit from the FBI, and the need for activists to pray. (DDLW #235) The Catholic Worker, Jan 1954, pp. 1, 7, 8
ByDorothy Day
Summary: A new year’s reflection on the ways they have failed Peter Maurin’s vision. Concludes that “…such failures are inseparable to a work of this kind, and necessary for our growth in holiness.” Posits that Peter would identify the tendency to act without sufficient clarification of thought as their greatest failure, and resolves to do better, while recognizing that attempting to put ideas into effect at once, and the ensuing failures, have been necessary for their growth. (DDLW #236) The Catholic Worker, Jan 1954, pp 3, 6
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Travels to a Trappist monastery for Holy Week and notes her speaking engagements. Recommends a journal on Christian art and lauds all personal efforts at creative expression. (The Catholic Worker, June 1952 DDLW #634).
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Reviews Dom Remhert Sorg’s, O.S.B. pamphlet “Towards a Benediction Theology of Manual Labor.” Discusses the traditional views of labor from both a philosophical and theological outlook, particularly that of the Egyptian Monks. Also mentions other writers who have contributed to a philosophy of labor. (DDLW #165) The Catholic Worker, October 1949, 4,6.
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Elaborates on the vision of voluntary poverty and what it implies for the kind of work we do, what we eat and drink, how we entertain ourselves. Recommends decentralized living and numerous books. Says “We need saints. God, give us saints.” (DDLW #223). The Catholic Worker, December 1944, 1, 7.
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Discusses the two major subjects of her speaking engagements, Peter Maurin, whom she describes as founder and mind of the C.W., and personalism, which she describes as communitarian, and the philosophy of both P. Maurin and the C.W.. Describes some of the difficulties in living the CW vocation and running farming communes. Recommends reading the Desert Fathers and Aldous Huxley’s Grey Eminence to understand personalism and communitarianism. (DDLW #148). The Catholic Worker, February 1943, 1,4.
