She did mean everyone, not those that were convenient to help.
The Marquette University Archives (click here) began to acquire the records of the Catholic Worker movement in 1962. The collection now comprises more than 200 cubic feet, including the personal papers of Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, and others involved in the movement; records of past and present Catholic Worker communities; photographs; audio and video recordings of interviews, talks, television programs, and peace demonstrations; and a wide variety of publications. Although access to materials of a confidential nature has been restricted at the donors' request, most records are open to research use....
Peter Maurin (1877-1949) Peter, who was the co-founder of the
Catholic Worker movement with Dorothy Day, believed that the problem
with culture and society, and thus its politics, was that it became
isolated from the gospel. The end result is that the higher calling of
humanity is lost. Production and profits win out over personhood. Rather
than being seen as co-creators with God,...
...Peter Maurin had, in many ways, a vision of realized eschatology. In other words, he would say, “The future will be different if we make the present different.” His famous book of writings, collectively called Easy Essays, are filled with real life wisdom:
“The world would become better off if people tried to become better. And people would become better if they stopped trying to become better off.”...
...To this day, the Catholic Worker movement has been “wind on the water” for the ongoing renewal of the social gospel and community life and action centered in Christ....
Peter Maurin accepted poverty as a destination for his work. He wanted more as a young many, but, every time he attempted to be middle class he was pulled back into poverty. As my mother says, "God works in strange ways."
I think this is twice now we have seen men, the other being Mr. Merton, on a glide path into a life which honored Christ. There is a dear friend of my family who once wanted to be a priest. He went to seminary, but, he left. In a conversation at of all places a funeral he got into a brief discussion about his deaconship within the Catholic Church. He stated I once believed the priesthood was best for me, but, when I was in seminary I knew after a time I didn't belong there. When the other candidates spoke of what lead them to serve the church there was a common thread. He stated by experience was about what I wanted, but, their experience was about what God wanted. I thought that interesting.
by Jim Forest
This essay by Jim Forest on Peter Maurin was written for The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History to be published by the Liturgical Press. Jim Forest, once a managing editor of The Catholic Worker, is the author of Love is the Measure: a Biography of Dorothy Day; and Living With Wisdom: a Biography of Thomas Merton. Both are published by Orbis.
Aristode Pierre Maurin, (click here) later known as Peter Maurin, was co-founder with Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker movement and is chiefly responsible for the movement's visionary qualities.
He was born into a peasant family in Oultet, a village in the Languedoc region of southern France, on May 9, 1877. At sixteen he entered the Christian Brothers, a teaching order which stressed simplicity of life, piety, and service to the poor. In 1898-99, his community life was interrupted by obligatory military service, in the course of which Maurin perceived a tension between religious and political duties. In 1902, when the French government closed many religious schools, Maurin left the order and became active in Le Sillon, a Catholic lay movement which advocated Christian democracy and supported cooperatives and unions. In 1908, disenchanted with the movement's increasingly political character, Maurin resigned from Le Sellon....
The Marquette University Archives (click here) began to acquire the records of the Catholic Worker movement in 1962. The collection now comprises more than 200 cubic feet, including the personal papers of Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, and others involved in the movement; records of past and present Catholic Worker communities; photographs; audio and video recordings of interviews, talks, television programs, and peace demonstrations; and a wide variety of publications. Although access to materials of a confidential nature has been restricted at the donors' request, most records are open to research use....
...Peter Maurin had, in many ways, a vision of realized eschatology. In other words, he would say, “The future will be different if we make the present different.” His famous book of writings, collectively called Easy Essays, are filled with real life wisdom:
“The world would become better off if people tried to become better. And people would become better if they stopped trying to become better off.”...
...To this day, the Catholic Worker movement has been “wind on the water” for the ongoing renewal of the social gospel and community life and action centered in Christ....
Peter Maurin accepted poverty as a destination for his work. He wanted more as a young many, but, every time he attempted to be middle class he was pulled back into poverty. As my mother says, "God works in strange ways."
I think this is twice now we have seen men, the other being Mr. Merton, on a glide path into a life which honored Christ. There is a dear friend of my family who once wanted to be a priest. He went to seminary, but, he left. In a conversation at of all places a funeral he got into a brief discussion about his deaconship within the Catholic Church. He stated I once believed the priesthood was best for me, but, when I was in seminary I knew after a time I didn't belong there. When the other candidates spoke of what lead them to serve the church there was a common thread. He stated by experience was about what I wanted, but, their experience was about what God wanted. I thought that interesting.
by Jim Forest
This essay by Jim Forest on Peter Maurin was written for The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History to be published by the Liturgical Press. Jim Forest, once a managing editor of The Catholic Worker, is the author of Love is the Measure: a Biography of Dorothy Day; and Living With Wisdom: a Biography of Thomas Merton. Both are published by Orbis.
Aristode Pierre Maurin, (click here) later known as Peter Maurin, was co-founder with Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker movement and is chiefly responsible for the movement's visionary qualities.
He was born into a peasant family in Oultet, a village in the Languedoc region of southern France, on May 9, 1877. At sixteen he entered the Christian Brothers, a teaching order which stressed simplicity of life, piety, and service to the poor. In 1898-99, his community life was interrupted by obligatory military service, in the course of which Maurin perceived a tension between religious and political duties. In 1902, when the French government closed many religious schools, Maurin left the order and became active in Le Sillon, a Catholic lay movement which advocated Christian democracy and supported cooperatives and unions. In 1908, disenchanted with the movement's increasingly political character, Maurin resigned from Le Sellon....
