Dorothy Day:
You are cordially invited to view a documentary on the life of Dorothy Day. “Don’t Call Me A Saint.” is an hour long film, which is free and open to the public. We will follow it with a discussion. Please join us!
Thursday, June 12th, at 7 PM
Office of Lifelong Faith Formation
Saint Benedict Parish
Has anyone ever complemented you in order to get out of doing work
themselves? Dorothy Day believed that
all Christians are called to service and holiness. Once, when someone called her a saint she
quipped, “Don’t call me a saint, I don’t want to be dismissed that easily.” Well that witty remark has not stopped other people
from saying she should be called a saint!
“At
their 2012 annual meeting, the Catholic bishops of the United States
unanimously recommended the canonization of Dorothy Day, founder of the
Catholic Worker movement. By then the
Vatican had already given her the title “Servant of God,” the first step in
formally recognizing Dorothy Day as a saint. On Ash Wednesday, 2013, preaching
in Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI spoke of Dorothy Day as a
model of conversion. While awareness of
her remarkable life has been growing steadily, she is at present still not
widely known.
(Servant of God Dorothy Day, by Jim Forest, The Encyclopedia of American Catholic
History).