{"id":27766,"date":"2013-05-31T11:56:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T15:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/dorothy-day-and-st-procopius-a\/"},"modified":"2021-02-28T09:18:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T13:18:38","slug":"dorothy-day-and-st-procopius-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/dorothy-day-and-st-procopius-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Day and St Procopius Abbey meet again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/Dorothy%20Day%202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/assets_c\/2013\/05\/Dorothy Day 2-thumb-250x311-14507.jpg\" alt=\"Dorothy Day 2.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"311\" \/><\/a>I don&#8217;t hide the fact that I believe Dorothy Day is a very reasonable and attractive candidate for the Church to canonize. Following Pope John Paul&#8217;s insistence that we need more contemporary saints from among the laity, we have a good model in Day. Several times in the past years I have posted articles on Dorothy Day (+1980) and I am happy to do so again today. My enthusiasm has less to do with Day&#8217;s social activism &#8211;even though at one time the Catholic Worker Houses were more Catholic and Benedictine-like&#8211; as it does with her accepting the truth of Jesus Christ as Messiah, her eventual conversion to Catholicism and her being a Benedictine Oblate.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-36255 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dorothy-Day-Oblation-Vow-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dorothy-Day-Oblation-Vow-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dorothy-Day-Oblation-Vow.jpg 718w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/>Oblation as a lay woman she was first connected with the Benedictine monks of Portsmouth Abbey before she settled her Oblation to St Procopius Abbey (outside Chicago). However, there is a difference of opinion on where Day&#8217;s Oblation was first offered, Portsmouth or Procopius. The historians have done some fact checking, so the matter is closed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Personally, I have been anxious for the Benedictines and the officials of Day&#8217;s sainthood cause in the Archdiocese of New York to talk about the relevance of Day&#8217;s Benedictine connection and to propose it for the laity&#8217;s consideration to follow. Hopes have been fulfilled with St Procopius Abbey Abbot Austin Murphy&#8217;s posting of the Oblate Dorothy Day on their <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.procopius.org\">web site<\/a><\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>More on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.procopius.org\/dorothyday\">the <strong>Dorothy Day-St Procopius connection<\/strong><\/a> and the prayer for her canonization is noted here.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t hide the fact that I believe Dorothy Day is a very reasonable and attractive candidate for the Church to canonize. Following Pope John Paul&#8217;s insistence that we need more contemporary saints from among the laity, we have a good model in Day. Several times in the past years I have posted articles on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/dorothy-day-and-st-procopius-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dorothy Day and St Procopius Abbey meet again<\/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":[36,22],"tags":[3212,32089,2223,3055,3042],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27766"}],"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=27766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36256,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27766\/revisions\/36256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}