Hold Nothing Back
Writings by Dorothy Day
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Paperback / softback
£12.99
Publisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 9780814646557
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 08/02/2016
Width: 13.7 cm
Height: 21 cm
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.
Contents
Foreword xi
by Kate Hennessy
Preface xv
by Patrick Jordan
1 Guadalupe 1
February 26, 1930
2 Bed 5
May 27, 1931
3 Now We Are Home Again 9
August 19, 1931
4 East Twelfth Street 14
November 30, 1932
5 For the Truly Poor 20
March 15, 1933
6 Saint John of the Cross 25
July 14, 1933
7 Houses of Hospitality 30
April 15, 1938
8 The House on Mott Street 35
May 6, 1938
9 Tale of Two Capitals 41
July 14, 1939
10 It Was a Good Dinner 49
August 23, 1940
11 About Mary 54
November 5, 1943
12 The Scandal of the Works of Mercy 58
November 4, 1949
13 Traveling by Bus 66
March 10, 1950
14 We Plead Guilty 72
December 27, 1957
15 Letter: From Dorothy Day 81
June 13, 1958
16 Pilgrimage to Mexico 83
December 26, 1958
17 Southern Pilgrimage 90
March 31, 1961
18 ‘A. J.’ 96
March 24, 1967
19 A Reminiscence at 75 102
August 10, 1973
Index 107
Foreword xi
by Kate Hennessy
Preface xv
by Patrick Jordan
1 Guadalupe 1
February 26, 1930
2 Bed 5
May 27, 1931
3 Now We Are Home Again 9
August 19, 1931
4 East Twelfth Street 14
November 30, 1932
5 For the Truly Poor 20
March 15, 1933
6 Saint John of the Cross 25
July 14, 1933
7 Houses of Hospitality 30
April 15, 1938
8 The House on Mott Street 35
May 6, 1938
9 Tale of Two Capitals 41
July 14, 1939
10 It Was a Good Dinner 49
August 23, 1940
11 About Mary 54
November 5, 1943
12 The Scandal of the Works of Mercy 58
November 4, 1949
13 Traveling by Bus 66
March 10, 1950
14 We Plead Guilty 72
December 27, 1957
15 Letter: From Dorothy Day 81
June 13, 1958
16 Pilgrimage to Mexico 83
December 26, 1958
17 Southern Pilgrimage 90
March 31, 1961
18 ‘A. J.’ 96
March 24, 1967
19 A Reminiscence at 75 102
August 10, 1973
Index 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