Dorothy Day Guild

We're so grateful for this experience of prayer, reflection, and celebration in community. For all who traveled to Indy this past week, we pray that the deep love of Christ in the Eucharist ignites within you a fire for justice and for peace just as it did for Dorothy.

Final day of Dorothy Day Guild Jubilee Pilgrimage: celebrating Mass in the crypt of St. Peter's on the 45th anniversary of Dorothy's death. #dorothyday #saints #catholicchurch #catholic #stpetersbasilica

Today is the 45th anniversary of Dorothy Day’s death. An American Catholic, Servant of God Dorothy Day is known for co-founding the Catholic Worker Movement and for her care for the poor and most vulnerable. In his speech to Congress in 2015, Pope Francis identified Day as one of four Americans he particularly admired due to “her passion for justice and for the cause of the oppressed” which was “inspired by the Gospel, her faith, and the example of the saints.” In light of Pope Leo XIV’s call for love of the poor in Dilexi Te, let us follow in Dorothy Day’s example.

Happy to be at the @unilateranense to speak about #dorothyday at a conference about Christians in international life.

“Those who cannot see Christ in the poor are atheists indeed. ” Today is the 45th anniversary of the death of Servant of God Dorothy Day, the American-born co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement. Image: Fr. William Hart McNichols.

To mark the 45th anniversary of the death of Servant of God, #dorothyday, members of rhe @DayGuild and Catholic Worker movement had a memorial Mass for Dorothy in the St Columbanus chapel in the grottos of St Peter’s Basilica with Bishop Paul Tighe

The Dorothy Day Guild met in Santa Maria Maggiore by Pope Francis's tomb to pray for Dorothy Day's legacy, the Catholic Worker Movement, and all who labor for justice and peace #popefrancis #santamariamaggiore #dorothyday #saints #catholicchurch

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Please support the cause for her canonization and our efforts to share her story by joining the @DayGuild - it’s free! dorothydayguild.org/join-us

For the first stop of their Jubilee Pilgrimage, the Dorothy Day Guild joined His Holiness Pope Leo XIV for a papal audience with a gift of Dorothy Day's breviary. #popeleo #catholicpope #dorothyday #saints #catholic #catholicchurch

Patrick Jordan, former managing editor of The Catholic Worker and of @commonwealmag, friend of Servant of God Dorothy Day, and a kind, humble and wonderful Christian, has died. Here is an appreciation from the Dorothy Day Guild: May Pat rest in peace. api.neonemails.com/emails/content…

"Un inconfondibile guizzo di luce" Per la rubrica "La pace si costruisce con la pace" @GiuliGaleotti presenta l'editoriale del settembre 1945 di Dorothy Day su Hiroshima e Nagasaki #QuattroPagine @DayGuild osservatoreromano.va/it/news/2025-0…

On behalf of the @DayGuild and @ManhattanEdu Dorothy Day center, we led an hour of the prayer vigil marking the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings. Was joined by my son Finn,

@sscjusa Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful photograph of Dorothy. If you have a source for it, we would like to share it as well!

@sscjusa She actually wasn't present that day, and admits she liked a more formal mass where possible, but also says "And yet–and yet–perhaps it happened to remind us that the power of God did not rest on all these appurtenances with which we surround it."

Reposted from Leanne Bowen leannebowen.com During the 70s, some priests were becoming rather casual with the liturgy. One afternoon, a priest came into the soup kitchen that Dorothy Day was working at. He wanted to offer a liturgy for the homeless. He went into the kitchen and grabbed a mug to use for the chalice. Dorothy, although frustrated at the irreverent use of houseware for the liturgy, prayed throughout the mass with the priest. After the liturgy ended, she quietly got up and started to cleanse the vessels. Then, she walked outside with the mug and a shovel. A man followed her and asked her what she was doing. It is said she kissed the mug and then buried it. She told him that it was no longer a mug, but a chalice. It was no longer suited for coffee- it had held the Blood of Christ. She didn’t want anyone to mistake it for a mug again. Once something holds the Body of Christ, it is no longer what it was. When the mug held the Blood of Christ, it changed its vocation forever. It could no longer hold anything less than Christ again. We were common mugs. Simple, functional, practical, and good people. We had a capacity to hold good things. But when Christ entered our lives, we became more. We became Chalices. We started to hold divinity Himself within our hearts. Now that we have held the Body of Christ within our bodies, we are no longer common, but rather extraordinary. May you know the transformation God has placed in your heart. May you trust that you are truly made new and be extraordinary today. Pictured: Dorothy Day holding a different mug.

Had a prayerful few hours today in Dorothy Day’s bedroom working on our preservation project sponsored by the @DayGuild and @ManhattanEdu. Thanks be to God for this amazing life and witness.

And for those in the Midwest, @BenedictineKS is hosting their inaugural Dorothy Day lecture this evening as well-- events.benedictine.edu/2024-dorothy-d…

Happening tonight!

Inspired after a day with amazing activists and academics in the board and advisory committee of the @DayGuild meeting at @ManhattanEdu

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