Tuesday, November 29, 2005
"Poverty Is My Vocation"
Today is the unofficial feast for Dorothy Day.
I feel that all families should have the conveniences and comforts which modern living brings and which do simplify life, and give time to read, to study, to think, and to pray. And to work in the apostolate, too. But poverty is my vocation, to live as simply and as poorly as I can, and never to cease talking and writing of poverty and destitution. Here and everywhere. "While there are poor, I am one of them. While men are in prison, I am not free," as (Eugene) Debs said and as we often quote.
(From The Dorothy Day Book)
