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Tag: Fr. Virgil Michel

October 13, 2017 ADR

The Catholic Worker – ‘An Organic Community, Grounded In The Liturgy’

October 11, 2017 ADR

Dorothy Day, Not The Only Radical Benedictine – Fr. Virgil Michel, OSB

We have experienced the radical love and compassion of God in Christ.  This experience created a crisis in our self images.  In divesting ourselves of how we were enculturated, and in laying aside our egos we now raise food (feed the hungry) and weave cloth (clothe the naked) for free distribution among those who have been denied these and so have less access to the necessities of life, as instructed in the teachings of Christ in the Works of Mercy.

Through contemplative prayer, mixed culture community, the devotional reading of scripture, solitude, the boreal forest, radical hospitality, voluntary poverty, and manual labour in community we serve the least in society as we seek to die more and more to our selves and to live to the risen Christ on this farm in north central Canada.

We renounce violence in all of its forms.

Peter Maurin

In the first centuries of Christianity the hungry were fed at a personal sacrifice, the naked were clothed at a personal sacrifice, the homeless were sheltered at a personal sacrifice… And the pagans used to say about the Christians, “See how they love each other.”

– Peter Maurin

Dorothy Day

What we would like to do is change the world – make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended for them to do….We can, to a certain extent, change the world; we can work for the oasis, the little cell of joy and peace in a harried world. We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever widening circle will reach around the world. We repeat, there is nothing that we can do but love, and, dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as well as our friend.

– Dorothy Day

Thomas Merton

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

- Thomas Merton

The Works Of Mercy

Feed the hungry.
Give drink to the thirsty.
Clothe the naked.
Harbour the harbourless.
Visit the sick.
Ransom the captive.
Bury the dead.

…freely you have received, freely give.

– Matthew 10:8b

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  • Peter Maurin
  • The Catholic Worker Movement
  • The Dorothy Day Collection
  • Thomas Merton – Gethsemani Abbey

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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

– Mahatma Gandhi

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