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THE PROCOPIAN LOVE IS THE MEASURE The Incarnational Spirituality of Dorothy Day by Rosalie Riegle

Dorothy Day, an oblate of St. Procopius Abbey, was a deeply spiritual woman. Her spirituality sprang from a love of the world and a love for God in the world. It was also a spirituality fully synthesized with her life as a radical social activist. The basis for that synthesis is the Incarnation. Because God came into the world and into our history, she knew that all creation was holy—everything from the ailanthus tree that she saw struggling on the sidewalk to the sad and lonely alcoholic priests she cared for when no one else would.

Rosalie Riegle presented this hatever she did for the poor, After leading a chaotic life and article as a talk to the abbey especially for the least and publishing her only novel, a thinly and monks on most unloved, Dorothy Day disguised autobiography where she confessed to an abortion, Dorothy Sunday, January 12, 2014. did for Christ. And it was Wall of a piece. Unlike some Catholics, settled down and lived happily on The monks are proud to Dorothy saw no separation between her with a very human publish this article in memory spiritual life of prayer and her active life love, Forster Batterham. When their daughter Tamar Therese was born, of our most famous oblate. as a leader of a large and often unruly Dorothy had the child baptized and lay movement which lived in poverty soon afterwards became a Catholic with the people it served, resisted war, As a peace activist during the herself. True to his anarchist principles, and addressed contemporary social , Rosalie Riegle Forster wouldn’t marry her, so she problems. In the Catholic Worker met Dorothy Day. That brief painfully severed the relationship and movement she cofounded, her interior remained celibate for the rest of her life. meeting changed her life. After spirituality was able to coexist as one collecting and publishing an with her . For several years Dorothy battered around, Tamar in tow, trying to oral history of the Catholic Born to a newspaper family on figure out how to live out as a Worker movement Day , 1897, Dorothy’s growing- Catholic her passion for writing and co-founded, Rosalie co-founded up years were spent in , where for confronting social and economic two Catholic Worker houses she graduated from what is now injustices. She prayed fervently that of hospitality in Saginaw, Lincoln Park High School. She left God would send her a way, and He did, the University of Illinois in Urbana Michigan, and went on to for she met , a loquacious after two years to make her living and well-schooled French peasant who write Dorothy Day: Portraits as a writer in . There she introduced her to the social teachings of Those Who Knew Her. socialized with Eugene O’Neill and of the , particularly through She recently published two other progressive writers, and became papal encyclicals. Together they started other oral histories of Catholic known both for her writing and for a newspaper on of 1933, and Worker and other nonviolent her activism, with the first of several before they knew it, a movement was arrests for occurring born — the Catholic Worker — named faith-based war resisters.

in the cause of women’s suffrage. But after the newspaper. The movement St. Benedict reminds us that monastic life is a share in the cross and sufferings of Christ. Rosalie received her doctorate she was mysteriously drawn to Roman flourishes ninety years later, and the from the University of Michigan Catholicism and often found herself website www.catholicworker.org and taught English at Saginaw visiting the immigrant churches that documents 227 houses of hospitality, Valley State University for dotted lower . Even as a mostly in the U.S., but now on all child, she had loved the psalms, a love thirty-three years. A widow, she continents but Asia. The Catholic she treasured until her death in 1980. 1 Worker still sells for its original is the mother of four daughters As Dorothy wrote in her autobiography, “penny a copy.” and the grandmother of seven. , it was reading the What a God-send Peter Maurin She now lives in Evanston, later novels of the Benedictine oblate Joris Karl Huysmans that helped her to was! His three-point program was Illinois, where she is active in Benedictine-inspired. It called for St. Nicholas Parish. feel that she, too, could be at home in the . 2 informed social criticism, houses of hospitality for the homeless,

The Clerestory • SUMMER 2014 ELEVEN and communal farms where the Benedictine oblates amongst us would divorced from the social action which unemployed could learn a skill. With like to go to some of the Benedictine should flow from it. She never could her luminous personality and ability to monasteries and become squatters on understand Catholics who speak of attract volunteers, Dorothy was able to their vast tracts, and so induce them to their intimate prayer life but don’t translate his vision into the continuing start again the guest houses which are see how that such devotion must practice of the Catholic Worker. “Pray part of the rule of the order. They don’t necessarily find fruit in practicing and work” is the Benedictine motto need all the land they have, and we the works of mercy and resisting the and it was Peter’s as well. (Whenever have plenty of landless folk.” 3 culture of materialism and war. These I see those two words together, I hear issues that private Catholics see as The philosophy of , which Dorothy’s sage advice to spend even politics, Dorothy saw as faith. She knew calls us to take personal responsibility more time in prayer when the work that action for peace and justice had to for changing conditions instead of appears to be overwhelming. Counter- come from faith and be alive with faith. relying on the state or other institutions, intuitive in the way of the world, but enables Catholic Workers to work for Another important Benedictine deeply realistic in the world of God.) social change while holding fast to influence was Dom Remberg Sorg with he idea of applying basic the belief that “success, as the world his theology of work. Brian Terrell, Christianity to social problems judges it, is not the final criterion for a Benedictine Oblate who is also a struck a chord in a nation still judgment.” 4 Many Catholic Workers Catholic Worker farmer and resister in recovering from the Great are active war resisters who spend time the tiny spot on the map called Maloy, TDepression, and, through The Catholic in prison and jail for their principled Iowa, has written cogently of Sorg and Worker, the word spread rapidly stance against war. 5 other in “Monastic Roots throughout the country. Emanating of the .” 7 Dorothy’s relationship to the Church from the first communities on the of her conversion was steady, loyal, orothy learned of St. Procopius of Manhattan, and intense. When she became a Abbey shortly after the CW houses of hospitality opened in Roman Catholic, she accepted the began, mentioning it in the Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit, South entire Church—doctrine, devotional paper in 1935 and making her Bend, Chicago, Minneapolis, practices, ecclesiastical structure—but Dfirst formal visit in 1940. She returned , Los Angeles, and went beyond the conventional passivity in 1954 and on April 26, 1955, became other cities. People also started most clerics at the time expected an oblate of the Abbey, a connection Catholic Worker farms which from the and instead acted out she cherished. Dorothy was particularly attempted—at first unsuccessfully— of her own informed conscience to drawn to Chrysostom Tarasevitch, to live out Maurin’s agrarian ideal. discover how to live as a lay Catholic. O.S.B., a monk who worked tirelessly This aspect of Peter’s Benedict-inspired Both she and Peter Maurin learned for rapprochement between Roman plan is finally thriving, especially on from Benedictines. They were deeply Catholicism and the Eastern Orthodox the Catholic Worker farms which 8 influenced and often in correspondence churches. Probably because of his dot the Midwest. New Hope Catholic and visits with Fr. Virgil Michel, O.S.B., influence, St. Procopius had taken Worker Farm, outside of Dubuque, is of St. Johns Abbey in Collegeville, up the ’s call for religious orders exemplary in combining agriculture Minnesota. This great liturgist’s to promote unity between Roman and scholarly critique. introduction of a responsorial Mass Catholicism and the Eastern Churches. What is this Catholic Worker or CW and his revival of the Pauline doctrine Dorothy had an affinity for Eastern as it is often called? Simply defined, of the Mystical Body spoke volumes to Rite liturgy and would participate it’s a loosely-knit movement of mostly this single mother who wanted to live in it wherever she could, both at Christian, mostly pacifist, men and her Catholicism to the fullest. St. Procopius and in New York. women who live together in small In fact, Dom Virgil Michel’s thought She had always loved the Russian communities and resist the ways of permeated much of Catholic people and their great literature, and the world. Some Workers come and intellectual life in the 1940s and 1950s. Russian spirituality added yet another stay only a week; some come and Liturgy was central and today, some dimension to her faith. stay a lifetime. Together they practice Catholic Worker houses still say recalls a time when she spoke at New voluntary poverty, living with and Renewal begins and has its source in the individual monk’s dedication... portions of the Hours. It’s hard for York University. The Cold War was serving in a personal way those who post-Vatican II Catholics to understand at its height and the media fanned the are poor, hungry, and homeless. the excitement lay Catholics felt in flames of fear, much as it does of the While the communities are united actively participating in daily Mass, Muslim world today. through a network of newsletters receiving the Eucharist, and being told and national and regional gatherings, We went into this really smoke- that we lay people were responsible there is probably more diversity than filled room and somebody asked for changing the world—in other conformity between them. her, with great venom, “Miss Day, words, for Catholic social action. you talk about loving your enemy. CW houses are supported primarily by An important and oft-neglected point Well, what would you do if the private donations, and and about Dom Michel: He was not only Russians invaded?” disenchantment with the state pervade a great liturgist, but a believer “that the movement. From its founding our responsibility for our neighbor Without any trouble at all, not in 1933 until today, it has attracted flowed from the fact that we were all annoyed or incensed or ready people who reject the militarism and connected to one another, believer to cross swords, Dorothy just materialism of contemporary society. or not, in the Body of Christ and said, “I would open my arms Dorothy led the way in this rejecting of the Eucharist. 6 and embrace them, like anyone the world and thinking out of the box else.” A staggering response at For Dorothy, as for Dom Michel, the 9 to solve social problems. For example, the time. Mass was the fountainhead of social in an essay in The Catholic Worker action and intimately connected with in 1958, she wrote, more as musing everything she did. It would grieve her than as a plan of action, that “the that for some, the Mass has become

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TWELVE t seems one morning a well-dressed woman came into the Catholic Worker house. Walked up to Dorothy and said, “Miss Day, I have a little something I’d like to give you.” It was a large diamond ring. Jim Forest, who lived at Ithe New York Catholic Worker at the time, tells it like this: Dorothy received the diamond ring with exactly the same appreciation she Dorothy, would have given to a crate of frozen frankfurters and put it into her pocket. An hour later, in comes “the Weasel.” (Everybody at the Worker had a nickname. the Diamond, You rarely knew their real names.) Now the Weasel was in a permanent state of and the Weasel rage. Had a voice that could strip paint off the wall. She was the kind of person who makes you wonder if you’re cut out for life in a house of hospitality. There’s a story about Dorothy Dorothy took the diamond ring out of her pocket and gave it to this woman. that she often told herself, Later, someone [at the Worker] asked if it wouldn’t have been better to sell one that encapsulates many the ring and pay the Weasel’s rent or arrange for care for her retarded son. themes I find important Or use it to pay the Worker’s bills, or to give better food to those who came in her spirituality: her through the soup line. Incarnational love for Dorothy said, “She has her dignity. If she wants to sell the ring, she is free the beauty in the world, to do so and pay her rent. But if she wants to take a cruise to Bermuda, her love for the unlovable, she can do that, too.” And then she said, “Or she can wear the ring just and also her reliance on like the woman who gave it to us. Do you suppose God made diamonds the concept of , just for the rich?” 18 supported by the providence She truly didn’t see any difference between the Weasel and the woman of God, who tells us to be as who gave her the diamond ring. Even though we give service to equality, carefree as the lilies in the most of us think the world would be a better place if everyone not only looked field. It’s the diamond ring like us, but acted more like us. Unlike many of us, Dorothy worried mostly story, famous in Dorothy lore. about herself and how she should live.

Oblates today may wonder at er voluntary poverty can Dorothy was a praying person and Dorothy’s long-distance affiliation be hard talk for both the she had absolute faith in the power with St. Procopius. She made her hierarchical church and the of prayer, even praying for suicides Act of Oblation, for instance, at laity. Even Catholic Worker because she knew there is no time Holy Innocents Parish in New York Hhouses have begun to soften it by with God. One oft-quoted line of hers City. Oblation in those days seems calling for “living with simplicity.” is “When you are left alone, pray.” 12 to have been primarily for spiritual But Dorothy meant it. She counseled Notice she did not say, “When you are nourishment, not for the building giving our goods away and living with alone,” but “when you are left alone.” of community one finds today. But very little, as the poor do. She wrote For Dorothy was also a people person, one can have community while not in The Catholic Worker of December, loved to be “just sitting around talking,” “living with,” and Dorothy certainly 1948, “Love of brother means voluntary as she says in the Epilogue of The had that with St. Procopius. As she poverty, stripping oneself....It also Long Loneliness. Her friends recount Renewal begins and has its source in the individual monk’s faith grace of God to help him work out his vocation from day day... wrote in 1957, “I am a part of the means nonparticipation in those fondly what a wonderful private Benedictine family all over the world comfort and luxuries which have been conversationalist she was. 13 and a member of the Benedictine manufactured by the exploitation of As a Catholic, Dorothy felt both the community at Lisle.”10 others.... If our jobs do not contribute communion of and communion to the common good, we pray God for While the Catholicism Dorothy with saints, and was particularly the grace to give them up. found through Peter and the devoted to some of them. St. Thérèse Benedictines anticipated themes Dorothy Day’s spirituality was truly of Lisieux, St.Teresa of Avila and the contemporary Church embraces, immanent and Incarnational, a love St. come to mind — she could also be critical of the church, of God as seen in creation, especially all saints to whom she has been particularly its materialism and support in those the world has forgotten. Jim compared. She even wrote a book of our many wars. She wanted it to Forest would often quote her as saying about St. Thérèse. Her devotion to the live up to the doctrines it preached that “the real test of our love for God saints gives us an unusual story. Jim and would quote Romano Guardini: is the love we have for the most Forest remembers how startled he was “The Church is the cross upon which repulsive human being we know.” to find, next to Dorothy’s bed, a tiny Christ is crucified.” 11 But she also saw the goodness or statue of , wearing armor. “God-ness” in everything, whether it He asked her about it and Dorothy was in the haggard faces of women responded, “Well she wasn’t canonized waiting in line for food, a fine linen for being a soldier. She was canonized handkerchief, or the scraggly beauty of because she followed her conscience.” a city weed. Frequently she repeated the line from Dostoevsky which reminds us that “the world will be saved by beauty.”

The Clerestory • SUMMER 2014 THIRTEEN FOURTEEN May he receive today from your bounty, O Lord, perseverance in good works, constancy in adversity, patience in tribulation...vigilance in doctrine...moderation in abundance, wisdom in conduct. “a detacher”becausehecounseled Worker inSouthBendhasperhaps Workers ofthetimecalled“TheGreat The retreatswerelooselybasedon The armorJimForestspeaksofbrings Julian Pleasants,whotaughtat John Hugo,returning“exuberantand ST. PROCOPIUS ABBEY Onesimus LacoutureofMontreal. Catholic Workermovementitself. Gauchat continues: In 1941,shemadetheretreatwithFr. Retreat.” Shecalledit“foodforthe within themovementandwithout Dorothy’s attraction toit: Dorothy Gauchattellsus: Sr. PeterClaver. detachment frommaterialgoods. charge ofCWhousestomakethe Notre Dameandwasoneofthe the bestdescriptionofretreat and the IgnatianSpiritualExercisesand to mindwhatDorothyandtheCatholic neo-Jansenistic. Fr.Hugowascalled founders ofHolyFamilyCatholic filled withjoy,”accordingtoherfriend first developedbyaJesuitpriest,Fr. everyone, includingmanyinthe strong.” Theseretreatsstrengthened almost ordered,thosewhowerein retreat butitwascontroversial,both her pacifismwasatoddswithalmost hard timesofWorldWarII,when her spirituality,especiallyduringthe because, onthesurface,itseemed At thatretreat.we’dgatherin The moreIthinkaboutit,the Cross. Forinstance,Dorothywas I stillcansee[Fr.Hugo]atthe It wasallverySt.Johnofthe wrong track.” willing toputourlivesonthe drive, thenyou’reonthe don’t sayyoucan’teatit, our disposaltodowhatneeds good steakinfrontofyou,you gave herselfcompletelytoallthe in yourlifeisconsuming if havingsteakseverydayand is right.Useeveryresourceat thank God.Ontheotherhand, the message.Ifsomebodyputsa table saying,“Hey!That’snot the diningroom,andthesenuns ideals thatFatherHugopresented to bedone. thought allofusshouldbe turkey, shestoppedsmoking. to us.Rightthenandthere,cold made suchbeautifulmeals.But much asherconscience.And more IthinkthatDorothy eat thatfood.Tosacrificeit.And admired St.Joan’sarmoras a terriblechainsmoker,butshe people wouldsitdownandnot having alltheextrasandniceties line, tofightforwhatwethink

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“When Ifeedthepoor,theycallme I Vietnam war,myDorothyisattracted CW conceptofprecaritysoimportant I mustresistthetemptationtoremake In thiskindofdetachment,shewas Luther King,Jr.,thatintheera of Dorothy believed,withother Dorothy, too,embracedacommitment very Benedictineandbalanced.Part vision ofmovingbeyondalife comment appliestoDorothyDay: culture. “Aslongasshehadmoney carry littleforthejourney,totravel incessantly tobuildforthefuture. unlike somecharitieswhichbeg in thebank,she’dneverputoutan to resistingthepowerofstate,and total war,nonviolencewasnot justa to Dorothy.Jesustoldhisfollowers to uncertaintyandtoldstoriestime moral butapractical imperative.She a ;whenIaskwhythepoorare and intheprocessnarrowdilute and parcelwiththisdetachmentisthe appeal,” rememberedTomCornell, strikes attheheartofouracquisitive a lifewhichtruststhatGodwillprovide accumulation andfearofthefutureto and timeagainofrelyingonGod’s likeGandhiand Martin providence andbeingrewarded.This hungry, theycallmeaCommunist.” her message.DomHelderCamera’s her solelythefeederofhungry, her intoapoliticalfigure.Manymake lightly, andtobegfortheirfood. Workers] hadtomakearetreat. Jesus dowithwhatIhaveto I hitchhikedtoPennsylvania was togivethemup.AndIjust we’d fallbythewayside.So Dorothy said[theCatholic Said ifwedidn’tmakearetreat, out oftheretreatonlynotion didn’t thinkthatwasDorothy’s do today?” of itwasthenecessitydaily good literature,hermusic, give themup,shewantedto Now Fr.Hugosaidthatthebest them up. that youhadtobe them thing todowithgoodthings not toenjoythem.Ithinkshegot meditation. Nottheregularkind, most importantthingIgotout and sheneverreallyfeltobligated approach. Dorothylikedher attitude atall.Shedidn’twantto and wehadaneight-dayclosed retreat but justsaying,“Whatwould I metherwhileworkingagainstthe to herspirituality.Perhapsbecause t’s easytocreateone’sownDorothy because thereweresomanyfacets away

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Dorothy Day, 1958, by Fritz Kaeser, courtesy of Archives, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dorothy Day, 1958, by Fritz Kaeser, courtesy of Marquette University Archives, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Worker, 1 DorothyDay. 19 Helder, 18 Ibid,145-46. 17 Ibid,84-85. 16 Ibid,85. 15 Ibid,83. 14 Ibid,82. 13 Riegle, 12 Loc.Cit. 11 Ibid,93. 10 Course oftheChurchinBrazil, 4 “AimsandMeansoftheCatholicWorker.” Resistance, Family,andCommunity Vol. XX,No.1,Jan.-Feb.2000. Nonviolent ResistersSpeakOutforPeace, 5SeeRosalieG.Riegle, (Wipf andStock,2013.) Incarnate becauseHelovedtheworld 3 “WorkersoftheWorldUnite.” would guideher.AndHedid. who persecuteyou. was justdoingwhattheNewTestament Her actionsandherwordsstillspeak 7 2 Ibid,107. Sermon ontheMount.Feedpoor, 20 Riegle, didn’t askforproofthatpeoplewere decried.” Inbothherwritingsand distributist economyarederidedand co-opted orworshipedbytheright.It University Press,2012)and www.catholicworker.org/aimsandmeans.cfm 9 Riegle, talk abouthowJesuslivesineveryone, to us.Shedidn’tjustgivethepoor, told usalltodo,especiallyinthe thought suchdistinctionsspurious.She 6 MarkZwick. and 5. nonviolent resistanceandachievinga most oftheleft,andeitherreviledor fed themultitudes.Shelovedworld efforts todoawaywiththeStateby essays whereshewrote,“Ouractions 8 PopeBenedictXVandPiusXI. and trustedthattheGodwhobecame she treatedeveryoneasJesus,evenif she livedwiththem.Shedidn’tjust and right.Infact,shewouldhave and transcendeddistinctionsbetween actions, sheconsistentlybothsubverted as palliativesandpoultices,our are admiredandpraisedbutonly seems tohavealwaysbeenso.Irecently poor butsimplyfedthem,justasJesus read areprintfromoneofher1949 poor. ThusDorothyisbelovedby priorities whichcausesomanytobe he orsheweredrunkandsmelly.She San Francisco,Harper&Row,1952,1981,29. love yourenemies,dogoodtothose liberal andconservative,betweenleft The CatholicWorker The CatholicWorker May, 1958,1,3. Dorothy Day, Dorothy Day, Voices fromtheCatholicWorker, The Gift:ALifethatMarkedthe Houston CatholicWorker. The LongLoneliness. 87 (December 1999),8. (April1957),6. especiallyChapters4 Doing TimeforPeace: Crossing theLine: 53 The Catholic (Vanderbilt

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