Hold Nothing Back

Writings by Dorothy Day

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

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Dorothy Day (1897–1980) was a well-known American journalist, activist, and Catholic convert whose cause for sainthood has been endorsed by the US bishops. She wrote numerous articles over a period of several decades for the prominent lay Catholic magazine Commonweal. Hold Nothing Back is gleaned from those writings. It includes reflections on her life as a single mother, her time in jail for civil disobedience, her struggles to keep the Catholic Worker movement she cofounded afloat, and her travels on crowded buses to report from the front lines about labor disputes, racial inequality, and poverty. At the heart of whatever Day wrote lies a profound and prophetic faith. Hold Nothing Back—a new, abridged edition of the previously published Dorothy Day: Writings from Commonweal—gives a glimpse of her remarkable humanity and endurance, and of the vibrant spirituality that underlay them.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-02-08
Mått137 x 210 x 6 mm
Vikt150 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor128
FörlagLiturgical Press
MedarbetareKate Hennessy
ISBN9780814646557

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Patrick Jordan (1944 – 2025) served as the former managing editor of The Catholic Worker. He and his wife Kathleen were associated with Dorothy Day from 1968 until her death in 1980. From 1984 to 2012, Jordan was an editor at Commonweal magazine. He is the author of Hold Nothing Back: Writings by Dorothy Day, and Dorothy Day: Love in Action; and served as editor of Dorothy Day: Writings from Commonweal, and Only Wonder Comprehends: John Garvey in Commonweal, published by Liturgical Press. He served on the advisory board of the Dorothy Day Guild.

ContentsForeword xiby Kate HennessyPreface xvby Patrick Jordan1 Guadalupe 1February 26, 19302 Bed 5May 27, 19313 Now We Are Home Again 9August 19, 19314 East Twelfth Street 14November 30, 19325 For the Truly Poor 20March 15, 19336 Saint John of the Cross 25July 14, 19337 Houses of Hospitality 30April 15, 1938 8 The House on Mott Street 35May 6, 19389 Tale of Two Capitals 41July 14, 193910 It Was a Good Dinner 49August 23, 194011 About Mary 54November 5, 194312 The Scandal of the Works of Mercy 58November 4, 194913 Traveling by Bus 66March 10, 195014 We Plead Guilty 72December 27, 195715 Letter: From Dorothy Day 81June 13, 195816 Pilgrimage to Mexico 83December 26, 195817 Southern Pilgrimage 90March 31, 196118 ‘A. J.’ 96March 24, 196719 A Reminiscence at 75 102August 10, 1973Index 107

Dorothy Day is the relentless prophet of justice for our time. In these historic essays, she reminds us that great political action against oppression is driven by religious faith, especially faith that invites us to profound trust, to humble poverty, to doing the smallest of tasks with the greatest of loves. Day's words are charged with anger and discontent just as they are filled with the spark "that would set afire the love of men towards each other and to God." From motherhood to itinerant teacher, she is in the end, our prophet of love-"love to the point of folly"-love that is both childlike and painful, both restless and intimate, always a witness to the gospel without exception and without apology too.Timothy Shriver, Chairman, Special Olympics