Hold Nothing Back
Writings by Dorothy Day
Published on 8. February 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-0-8146-4655-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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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 OlympicsMore details
Edition
Abridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Collegeville, MN
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Abridged edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
169 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8146-4655-7 (9780814646557)
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Persons
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.
Content
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
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