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Hold Nothing Back

Writings by Dorothy Day

Hold Nothing Back

Writings by Dorothy Day

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£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

Patrick Jordan, Kate Hennessy

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.

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