{"id":26994,"date":"2012-05-24T10:03:34","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T14:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/05\/peter-maurin-and-dorothy-day-s\/"},"modified":"2013-12-17T17:39:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T21:39:39","slug":"peter-maurin-and-dorothy-day-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/05\/peter-maurin-and-dorothy-day-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day: still relevant today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/PeterMaurin%20learning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" alt=\"PeterMaurin learning.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2012\/05\/PeterMaurin learning-thumb-300x204-11735.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Catholics who don&#8217;t know the names of\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Maurin\">Peter Maurin<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>(1877-1949) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dorothy_Day\"><b>Dorothy Day<\/b><\/a>\u00a0(1897-1980) ought to do some research. These two, I am becoming more convinced, are true holy people that we can reliably follow. That is, they will lead us to Christ. But don&#8217;t be fooled: neither are easily understood given what we face today, nor are they lukewarm about the Catholic faith they wholeheartedly embraced and lived.<\/p>\n<p>Writing for Crisis Magazine online, Christopher Shannon said that &#8220;Day herself considered him the holiest man she ever knew, yet conceded he was something of an eccentric. Still, she remained convinced that he was a truly Christian eccentric, a holy fool in the tradition of St. Paul, or more specifically, St. Francis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole essay, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crisismagazine.com\/2012\/peter-maurin-a-fool-for-christ\"><b>Peter Maurin: A Fool for Christ<\/b><\/a>&#8220;, it is worth the time.<\/p>\n<p>You may also want to read other recent works on the Servant of God Dorothy Day (who was also an Oblate of Saint Benedict):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dorothy Day, with Francis J. Sicius,\u00a0<i>Peter Maurin: Apostle to the World<\/i>\u00a0(Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2004).<\/li>\n<li>Robert Ellsberg, ed.,\u00a0<i>All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day<\/i>\u00a0(Milwaukee: Marquette UP, 2010).<\/li>\n<li>Jim Forest,\u00a0<i>All is Grace: A Biography of Dorothy Day<\/i>\u00a0(Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2011).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A year ago I sponsored an evening on Dorothy Day with Crossroads Cultural Center,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/2011\/06\/dorothy-day-and-the-catholic-w.html\"><b>here is the post from that event<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catholics who don&#8217;t know the names of\u00a0Peter Maurin\u00a0(1877-1949) and\u00a0Dorothy Day\u00a0(1897-1980) ought to do some research. These two, I am becoming more convinced, are true holy people that we can reliably follow. That is, they will lead us to Christ. But don&#8217;t be fooled: neither are easily understood given what we face today, nor are they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2012\/05\/peter-maurin-and-dorothy-day-s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day: still relevant today<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[2958,2223,2959],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29795,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26994\/revisions\/29795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}