Above is a stained glass of "Servant of G-d" Dorothy Day. "Servant" is the first step, and title to Sainthood. She was an activist, a journalist, a radical, a bohemian.
Being an outsider that actually thought that being kind non-violent, and feeding, and housing the poor was what faith was about. So acted on it, and fed, and housed the poor, and unwanted.
Having led such a life she's likely 50 to 100 years away from actual sainthood.
More conventional figures are on much faster tracks. Some go along to get along personalities made in in less than five years. Actual Christians take decades to centuries.
Hey business is business.
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Dorothy Day.
I am glad to see her remembered.
Thank You.
Oddly though my high school was a demented racist rightwing pit. They nevertheless had a soft spot for the Catholic Worker, and Dorothy Day. They had the newspaper in our library, and had Catholic Worker speakers come to lecture on our days of prayer, and spiritual renewal.
In most catholic schools at that time. These were just anti-communist pro-Vietnam War anti-hippie jamborees. Again oddly at our school it was all about integration, remember that, and Saint Francis stuff...go figure.
Anyway that's how I became a fan.
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