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On Pilgrimage: The Sixties
This collection of Dorothy Day's "On Pilgrimage" columns from the 1960s is a chronicle of faith and action. Living among the poor and seeking God in her daily life, Dorothy Day had a special vantage point during this tumultuous decade, marked by the Cuban Revolution, Vatican II, the struggle for Civil Rights, Vietnam protests, and the rise of the United Farmworkers.
336 pages, Paperback
Published May 19, 2021
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Dorothy Day
71 books257 followersDorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic Christian without in any way abandoning her social and anarchist activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical in the American Catholic Church. In the 1930s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker movement, a nonviolent, pacifist movement that continues to combine direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf.
A revered figure within the U.S. Catholic community, Day's cause for canonization was recently open by the Catholic Church.
A revered figure within the U.S. Catholic community, Day's cause for canonization was recently open by the Catholic Church.
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June 9, 2025
Dorothy Day’s voice is so salient. The last two years of the 60s covered this collection were particularly poignant and timely. I learned of her work only a few years ago and am so grateful for the legacy she left behind.
Her words are 10/10. This collection feels so spotty and like you need more context to understand most of the letters (hence, the rating).
Two quotes (for posterity):
1) “‘Do what you are doing…’ All work, whether building, increasing food production, running credit unions, working in factories which produce for true human needs, working in the smallest of industries, the handcrafts— all these things can come under the heading of the works of mercy, which are the opposite of the works of war.”
2) “The need for prayer. All those at that meeting were going out to a hostile world, a world of such horrors…I accuse the govt itself, and all of us, because we are Americans, too, of these mass murders, this destruction of villages, the wiping out of peoples…Reparation is needed… We are our brother’s keeper. But meanwhile in this hushed room there was prayer, for strength to know and to love and to find out what to do and set our hands to useful work that will contribute to peace, not to war. Love is the measure by which we will be judged.”
Her words are 10/10. This collection feels so spotty and like you need more context to understand most of the letters (hence, the rating).
Two quotes (for posterity):
1) “‘Do what you are doing…’ All work, whether building, increasing food production, running credit unions, working in factories which produce for true human needs, working in the smallest of industries, the handcrafts— all these things can come under the heading of the works of mercy, which are the opposite of the works of war.”
2) “The need for prayer. All those at that meeting were going out to a hostile world, a world of such horrors…I accuse the govt itself, and all of us, because we are Americans, too, of these mass murders, this destruction of villages, the wiping out of peoples…Reparation is needed… We are our brother’s keeper. But meanwhile in this hushed room there was prayer, for strength to know and to love and to find out what to do and set our hands to useful work that will contribute to peace, not to war. Love is the measure by which we will be judged.”
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