Remarks on Dorothy Day

First of all, let me start out by apologizing to the readership! I let you guys down but, most importantly, I failed to fulfill my obligation to myself that I would write something on here everyday. What an interesting evening. I finally had a chance to visit the Catholic Worker. What a space! An abundance of great people fueled by the legacy of Dorothy Day. The scholarship seemed to indicate or at least, side with the idea that she ought to be Canonized. To this notion, I concur. She was/is a remarkable woman, with whom, we cannot say enough great things about. Though she never sought praise, or wavered in her hope for, social justice for the impoverished, and/or the enrichment of souls. That as a community, we might be able to provide a safe-haven for the down-trodden, the drug addicted, the oppressed, the homeless, the individual seeking refuge and asylum from the torments of their foreign land, or even, perhaps, domestic land!

It is safe to say that, if we all use Dorothy Day as a model for peace, social justice, and a helping hand for all who need us, that the world will benefit in ways immeasurable. We can heal these old wounds. We can patch defected hearts. We can blanket the cold and the dampened folks who seek a warm place to sleep tonight. What grace she had! As a whole, we can only hope to make minimal strides at best, in paralleling, just a fraction of what this enormously brave, compassionate, and dear heart, had accomplished throughout her prolific life as a social justice activist. Her piety had depths that, as a collective body, we can hardly imagine. However, we can take from her life, her beautiful attributes as a loving woman, person of strong faith, and one of superior spiritual fortitude. In fact, I leave feeling better both, as a catholic, and as person of faith, by having delved a bit more into Dorothy Day's myriad accomplishments.