Works of Mercy-Dorothy Day

1. WORKS OF MERCY
DOROTHY DAY

2. Dorothy Day

3. The greatest challenge of the day is:
"
how to bring about a revolution of
the heart, a revolution which has to
start with each one of us?"

4. Prayer For The Canonization
of Servant of God
Dorothy Day
Merciful God, you called your servant
Dorothy Day to show us the face of
Jesus in the poor and forsaken.
By constant practice
of the works of mercy,
she embraced poverty and witnessed
steadfastly to justice and peace.
Count her among your saints
and lead us all to become friends of
the poor ones of the earth,
and to recognize you in them.
We ask this through your Son
Jesus Christ, bringer of good news
to the poor. Amen

5. Peter Maurin
Maurin saw Dorothy Day as a new St. Catherine
of Siena, the medieval reformer and peace
negotiator. Maurin believed Day could "move
mountains, and have influence on governments,
temporal and spiritual

6. The Staten Island Years

7. CORPORAL WORKS OF
MERCY
• FEED THE HUNGRY
• GIVE DRINK TO THE THIRSTY
• CLOTHE THE NAKED
• SHELTER THE HOMELESS
• VISIT THE SICK
• VISIT THE IMPRISONED
• BURY THE DEAD

8. SPIRITUAL WORKS OF
MERCY
• Admonish the sinner
• Instruct the ignorant
• Counsel the doubtful
• Comfort the sorrowful
• Bear wrongs patiently
• Forgive all injuries
• Pray for the living and the dead