FREE THE LONG LONELINESS PDF Dorothy Day | 304 pages | 01 Sep 2009 | HarperCollins Publishers Inc | 9780060617516 | English | New York, United States The Long Loneliness - Wikipedia Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Daniel Berrigan Designed by. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published September 1st by HarperOne first published February More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Long The Long Lonelinessplease sign up. What is the meaning of long loneliness and the solution is love from the community? See 1 question about The Long Loneliness…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. May 28, Padraic rated it it was amazing Shelves: why-i-am-still-christian. In many ways this is a difficult book - Dorothy was nothing if not difficult. Her reduction of Christianity to a lived pattern of daily actions pray, feed the hungry, clothe the naked leaves not much room for those things most of us view as essential no matter how much she listened to the opera on the radio, or read Dostoevsky. It's a hard knock life. But, oh, the joy that came like an oil strike from those years of intensity! I was in New York City the night she died, riding a cab uptown, sp In many ways this is a difficult book - Dorothy was nothing if not difficult. I was in New York City the night she died, riding a cab uptown, spending money as one must to survive as a tourist. It was cold and wet, and the Christmas lights were shining brilliantly on the pavement. Something felt weirdly absent from the earth. View 1 comment. May 06, booklady rated it really liked it Recommended to booklady by: Sr. Jan Futrell. Shelves: historyreligionnon-fictionbiography, favoritesThe Long Lonelinesstheologywomenhagiography. It was required reading for our Spiritual Classics class. Viewed from the wider perspective, I believe Sr. Dorothy Day's life was a constant series of choices for God, not so much between The Long Loneliness and evil but be The Long Loneliness tells the life story of Catholic social activist Dorothy Day. Oct 27, Carl rated it really liked it. Dorothy Day spent almost half her lifetime waiting for her call, her spiritual call. But when it came it was not a religious call. It was not the act of having her daughter baptized a Catholic, though that single act cost her a common law husband. It was not the systematic instruction in Catholicism. It was not having herself baptized nor was it her first communion in the Catholic Church. In fact three years after these last of these events, she was still looking for The Long Loneliness direction in her life. But Dorothy Day spent almost half her lifetime waiting for her call, her spiritual call. But when it came it was not a call to ritual, it was not a call to communion, it was a call to service, and it came in the form of a visit from one Peter Maurin, a Frenchman, a revolutionary, a The Long Loneliness, a Catholic, who The Long Loneliness referred to her by one of her publishers. What Peter brought to her, rather what he insisted she undertake, was to put her faith into action in serving the poor. The program he preached to her and which got implemented in stages over the next many years was a newspaper, a daily, the Catholic Worker; hospitality houses The Long Loneliness the big cities to help the working poor; The Long Loneliness rural farming The Long Loneliness. All of these did happen but in her autobiography Dorothy Day does not claim credit for them, rather she says they just The Long Loneliness as various of them were sitting around The Long Loneliness talking: We were just sitting there talking when Peter Maurin came in. We were just sitting there talking when lines of people began to form saying, "We need bread. If there were six small loaves and a few fishes, we had to divide them. There was always bread. We were just sitting there talking and people moved in on us. Let those who can take it, take it. Some moved out and that made The Long Loneliness for more. And somehow the walls were expanded. We were just sitting there talking and someone said, "Let's all go live on a farm. It just came about. It just happened. The Long Loneliness Along the way on this journey and throughout it, though she was usually surrounded by people, Dorothy Day felt regularly The Long Loneliness, which she describes, in her view as unique to women: I was lonely, deadly lonely. And I was to find out then, as I found out so The Long Loneliness times, over The Long Loneliness over again, that women especially are social beings, who are not content with just husband and family, but must have a community, a group, an exchange with others. Young and old, even in the busiest years of our lives, we women especially are victims of the long loneliness. The Long Loneliness was years before I woke up without that longing The Long Loneliness a face pressed against my breast, an arm about my shoulder. The sense of loss was there. I never was so unhappy, never felt so great the sense of loneliness. No matter how many times I gave up mother, father, husband, brother, daughter, for His sake, I had to do it over again. Tamar [her daughter] is partly responsible for the title of this book in that when I was beginning it she was writing me The Long Loneliness how alone a mother of young children always is. I had also just heard from an old woman who lived a long and full life, and she too spoke of her loneliness. Ultimately, what she discovered and shares with others who might feel the same is: We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. Dorothy Day's message in her autobiography, in her life, is that women in general, and her specifically, are subject to a deep and long loneliness from the repeated losses of life, and that the only resolution for this long loneliness is to be found in the sacrifice of service to others and in a community doing so. That she did in The Catholic Worker Movement. My Evaluation As I have said elsewhere about spiritual quest stories At the risk of sounding cynical, after reading The Seven Storey Mountain and The Long Loneliness, two of the more important autobiographical spiritual quest stories of the mid-twentieth century I am left asking myself whether there is anything new to be learned about the spiritual quest after you have read Augustine? Dorothy Day's is no exception. I The Long Loneliness a good part of her autobiography tedious, sometimes simply daily listings of people and events, not so much as to offer insight as seemingly to name and document. But once she met Peter Maurin this story and her life took off. So if you begin this book hang in there through the early tedium, the latter third of the book is worth your patience. As a mater of fact, while I was reading the book and got to her meeting with Perer Maurin, what I wrote was: Well, finally, on pagewith just a hundred pages to go in the book, the real story, The Catholic Worker story, begins with Dorothy Day's first meeting with Peter Maurin. She had just returned from covering a workers' protest in Washington, DC, was tired, walked into her apartment in New York to be met by one Peter Maruin, referred to her by one of her publishers. She asserted, Peter the French peasant, whose spirit and ideas will dominate the rest of this book as they will dominate the rest of my life. Jan 25, Thom Behrens rated it it was amazing. This book caught me by surprise, and made me think really, really hard about that question, even though it is a question The Long Loneliness figured The Long Loneliness had already thought really hard The Long Loneliness. May 07, The Long Loneliness. Sullivan rated it it was amazing Recommends it The Long Loneliness Catholics especially. Shelves: american- historynonfictionhistoricalhistorysociologyhistorical-biographyautobiographyjournalismphilosophysocial-justice. This book is autobiography, but focusses on the author's conversion to the Catholic faith. A very significant conversion it was The Long Loneliness it led to the creation of the Catholic Worker movement. From her youth Dorothy Day felt empathy for the poor. She wanted to work for social justice when she joined the Socialists and the Wobblies, but was unsatisfied with idealogies that denied God. So she explored Christianity and in time followed the Christian gospels—and her own instincts—into the realms of p This book is autobiography, but focusses on the author's conversion to the Catholic faith. So she explored Christianity and in time followed the The Long Loneliness gospels— and her own instincts—into the realms of pacifism, direct service to the poor, and what she called voluntary poverty. The Long Loneliness An incredible woman. Beautifully written. Sincere and humble to the depths of her DNA.