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We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day
Age: 83 †
Born: 1897
Born: November 8
Died: 1980
Died: November 29
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Paperwork, cleaning the house, dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all that happens-these things, too, are the works of peace, and often seem like a very little way.
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Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?
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As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.
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The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.
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Don't call me a saint I don't want to be dismissed so easily.
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When they call you a saint, it means basically that you are not to be taken seriously.
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Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?
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