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Title: Loaves and Fishes by Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Robert Coles ISBN: 1-57075-156-0 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "All we give is given to us to give"
Comment: So says Dorothy Day in "Loaves and Fishes" (p. 177), and it is both the heart of the book's message and the central theme of her adult life. Thank goodness Orbis has reprinted this classic personal history of the Catholic Worker movement and the colorful saints in its ranks. In the book, Dorothy tells how her depression-era meeting with Peter Maurin birthed first a newspaper, then a hospitality house, then a national movement. In addition, Dorothy tries to explain the underlying theological and spiritual principles of the Catholic Workers: the resistance to power structures that cynically refuse to care for society's most vulnerable; the Christ-inspired conviction that voluntary poverty (or what Dorothy called "precarity") is a mechanism for social reform as well as a transformative sharing in redemptive suffering; that the duty of Christians is to collaborate with God in the creation of God's Kingdom; and that in society as it's currently structured, one is either on the side of the poor or one is an exploiter--there's no fence-sitting. As Peter Maurin says (quoted by Dorothy, p. 86): "We cannot see our brother [or sister] in need without stripping ourselves. It is the only [genuine] way we have of showing our love."
Reading Dorothy Day, as I try to do every year, is a reminder both of how far from the Gospel message most of us who call ourselves Christians live, and how wonderfully easy, joyful, and liberating living that message would actually be. By both her example and writings, Dorothy invites us to ask ourselves why we hold back from doing what we know is right, and inspires us to roll up our sleeves and accept the Gospel challenge. Let her have the final word here (p. 176):
"One of the greatest evils of the day...is [a] sense of futility. People say, What good can one person do? What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment. But we can beg for an increase of love in our hearts that will vitalize and transorm all our individual actions, and know that God will take them and multiply them, as Jesus multiplied the loaves and fishes."
Rating: 5
Summary: inspiring
Comment: This book contains the highlights and experiences of Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. It is a very enjoyable book. The philosophy and beliefs are brought out in a series of experiences, many of them humorous, about the unique characters, role models and lessons learned in trying to adopt an early Christian communal attitude to charity and bring it to the streets of New York City. Dorothy Day lived her beliefs intently. Over the decades it resulted in running many urban soup kitchens, Hospitality houses, a farm or two, along with publishing the Catholic Worker Newspaper and authoring this very inspiring book.. This book will make you think,
Rating: 5
Summary: A deeply moving book, from a sorely needed voice
Comment: At a time when the "mainstream" media insists on appointing the Christian Coalition and other groups of their ilk as voices of the Gospel in todays world, we are reminded of how much the life, words, and witness of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker are needed. Back in print in the handsome edition, "Loaves and Fishes" tells the history of the movement founded by Day and Peter Maurin. In an era when far too many associate Christianity with indifference to Christ's poor, and the embracement of intolerant and spiteful political agendas, the voice of prophets like Day are sorely needed.
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Title: The Long Loneliness by Dorothy Day ISBN: 0060617519 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 15 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: On Pilgrimage by Dorothy Day ISBN: 0802846297 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Dorothy Day: Selected Writings by Robert Ellsberg, Dorothy Day ISBN: 0883448025 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion (Radcliffe Biography Series) by Robert Coles ISBN: 0201079747 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: April, 1989 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: Dorothy Day: Writings from Commonweal by Dorothy Day, Patrick Jordan ISBN: 0814628753 Publisher: Liturgical Press Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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