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DOROTHY DAY, JOURNALIST - 29 NOVEMBER

 

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER 

Saints celebrated on the 29th of November

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SERVANT OF GOD DOROTHY DAY

The third of five children, Dorothy May Day was born in New York to John I. Day and Grace Satterlee Day. John Day was a horse-racing enthusiast, and a sportswriter. 

Dorothy Day, a convert to Catholicism at the age of 30, believed in applying Christian principles to help the poor. Peter Maurin, whom she met in the late 1920s, talked to her about voluntary poverty, service to others, and Christian reform. He believed that if each Christian individually performed acts of kindness, Christians could collectively change the social order. Dorothy realized that Maurin's ideas were a bridge to her own commitment to the poor. With his vision and her practicality, Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day established the Catholic Worker movement, which opened ‘houses of hospitality’ for the poor and a string of farming communes in America and other nations. 

Beginning in the 1930s Depression era, Day and the Catholic Worker became a ray of hope for the poor and hungry, a voice for the powerless, challenging the wealthy, churches, government, and employers who had ignored the needy.

From her baptism in 1927 to the end of her life, she attended Mass and prayed daily.

Dorothy remained active and outspoken until her death on November 29, 1980 at Maryhouse, a Catholic Worker hospitality house in New York City. After a lifetime of voluntary poverty, Dorothy left no money for a funeral. The Catholic Archdiocese of New York paid the expenses. A gifted and tireless writer, Dorothy Day wrote thousands of essays, articles, and reviews, as well as several books in her eighty-three years of life.

In 2000, Pope John Paul II. opened the cause for Dorothy’s canonisation. She is now a Servant of God.

Sources: https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/social-sciences-and-law/sociology-biographies/dorothy-day

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-courage-and-compassion-of-catholic-activist-dorothy-day/2020/03/05/a404c7ec-3c7f-11ea-b90d-5652806c3b3a_story.html

https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/17517/pope-francis-on-dorothy-day-the-grace-that-flows-from-charity-


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