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Dorothy Day: laywoman, peace activist, Catholic convert, single mother, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement– and perhaps soon, a saint!

The Dorothy Day Guild is an association of the faithful working together to support and advance the cause of canonization for Dorothy Day. Since 2005, the Guild has assisted the official sainthood cause for Dorothy in the Roman Catholic Church and has worked to promote her legacy of Gospel nonviolence and voluntary poverty.

About the Dorothy Day Guild

We are an association of the faithful who work to forward the canonization cause of Dorothy Day, a laywoman, Catholic convert, peace activist, single mother, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement. Founded in 2005, the Guild supports the official sainthood process for Dorothy and promotes her legacy of voluntary poverty and nonviolence and her unique witness to the Gospel.

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The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

- DOROTHY DAY

Graces, Favors, and Miracles

One of the Guild’s responsibilities is to document the help granted through Dorothy Day’s intercession. Nothing should be viewed as too insignificant to report.

With gratitude, we welcome your sharing.

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When I look at the world for examples of how to act, I am drawn to people who are deeply committed to the well-being of other people. Many people, myself included, have high ideals about equality and protection of the poor and vulnerable, but what set Dorothy Day apart was her commitment to these ideals, even though actually acting on her ideals met asking nothing for herself and living a life of amazing simplicity that often ran counter to her own prosperity and pleasure.

In my short life so far, I have started to pursue work that I hope will help reduce the damage that climate change is causing to humans across the globe. The climate crisis was not something people were thinking about for most of Dorothy Day's life, but the way she lived and encouraged others to live is the right answer for a sustainable human life on earth. Her work was not flashy, but it put ordinary people and their basic needs first and that is something we need to keep doing today.

-Anonymous

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I had always wanted to be a writer. A couple of years ago I chanced upon the note in the DD Guild newsletter looking for volunteer transcribers. Did the work for a year and a half, feeling so blessed to make use of long unused fact checking and textual editing skills from decades ago. Felt SO blessed to do her any little favor. Transcribing her words wasn’t the same as writing a book about her, but it got me through one of the toughest years of my life, and I think it was her special answer to my prayer: here, do the work you CAN do.

-Harrington Park, NJ

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Latest News

We're on Pilgrimage!

By Casey Mullaney • 09 Jul, 2024

Dear members and friends of the Dorothy Day Guild, We hope this month’s missive finds you well! Here at the Guild, we are enjoying some beautiful summer weather and making prayerful and practical preparations for the National Eucharistic Congress next week. It’s hard to believe how the summer is flying by, so I’m especially grateful for the opportunity to pause and reflect on the events and fellowship of the past month before we dive into another busy time of fellowship, liturgy, and celebration.

Ordinary Time, Everyday Holiness

By Casey Mullaney • 10 Jun, 2024

Dear friends, Warm June greetings from all of us at the Dorothy Day Guild! As we settle into the liturgical season of Ordinary time, the time of the Church, we hope that this missive finds you enjoying a sense of vitality and growth in community. For Dorothy, the rhythms of Ordinary time reflected the goodness of everyday life and the quiet presence of God in the shared meals, celebrations, and work of life together in her family and at the Catholic Worker. A disciple of Peter Maurin and of “the Little Way,” Dorothy knew that the path to holiness is found through a lifetime of these small moments and practices undertaken with love.

Happy May Day! Celebrating 91 years of the Catholic Worker Movement

By Casey Mullaney • 02 May, 2024

Dear members and friends of the Dorothy Day Guild, Happy May Day! Today marks the 91st anniversary of the publication of the first issue of The Catholic Worker on May 1st, 1933. Dorothy, her brother John, her daughter Tamar, and a few others distributed the first run of 2,500 papers in Union Square for a penny a copy and by the end of the year, circulation had grown to 100,000. From this little paper sprouted the houses of hospitality, soup kitchens, co-ops, and farms which have offered the spiritual and corporal works of mercy and sheltered and sustained so many of us for the past nine decades. As Dorothy wrote years later in The Long Loneliness,

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Why Join the Dorothy Day Guild?

If you believe in the significance of Dorothy Day's life, joining the Dorothy Day Guild is a direct way to show that you support the cause for her canonization. In turn, the steady growth of Guild membership points to the vitality of grassroots support for the cause and allows us to continue offering free programming and resources to promote Dorothy’s legacy of hospitality, voluntary poverty, and Gospel nonviolence.

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Upcoming Events

Dorothy Day Guild Meet-up at the National Eucharistic Congress

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Heading to Indianapolis for the National Eucharistic Congress? Join us for dinner and roundtable discussions on Friday and Saturday!

This is a FREE EVENT-- you do not need tickets to the Congress to participate!

Martha Hennessy and other members of the Dorothy Day Guild and the Catholic Worker community are meeting up for two evenings of picnic dinner and roundtable discussion at Babe Denny Park, directly across from Lucas Oil Stadium. We'll share a meal and talk about the Eucharistic vision of the Catholic Worker movement and its call to justice and peace.

Details:
Dinner at 5:00 pm
Discussion at 5:30 pm
Babe Denny Park
At the intersection of Wyoming and Meikel Streets

Questions? Want to bring a dish to share?
Contact Renée at 952-693-6957
Friday, July 19 & Saturday July 20

Radical Action: Tracing Dorothy Day

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Manhattan College’s O’Malley Library Gallery will host Kristi Pfister’s “Radical Action: Tracing Dorothy Day” from September 18th through December 16th. “Radical Action” is an installation of suspended fabric columns, marble mosaics, and mixed media work that explores the duality of Day's radical actions and her spiritual self. The mosaic's concrete strength contrasts with translucent columns on which Pfister has traced patterned fragments of drawings. A large-scale painted scroll presents Day as a modern-day caryatid leading a procession of activism.

You can come experience the exhibit at the O’Malley library gallery (4513 Manhattan College Parkway, Bronx, NY) daily this fall between 10 am and 6 pm. Please be especially sure to join us for a reception and artist talk on Thursday October 26th from 5-7pm. Pfister will deliver some brief remarks right at five. We hope to see you there!

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A Woman of Conscience, a Saint for Our Time

The Dorothy Day Guild supports and advances the cause for canonization of Dorothy Day, initiated by the Archdiocese of New York as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, and promotes, for the benefit of all people interested in social justice, awareness of Dorothy Day, her writings, the Catholic Worker Movement she co-founded, and her life and witness to the Gospel.

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