"It is not love in the abstract that counts. Men have loved a cause as they have loved a woman. They have loved the
brotherhood, the workers, the poor, the oppressed - but they have not loved [humanity]; they have not loved the least of
these. They have not loved "personally." It is hard to love. It is the hardest thing in the world, naturally speaking. Have
you ever read Tolstoy's Resurrection? He tells of political prisoners in a long prison train, enduring chains and persecution
for the love of their brothers, ignoring those same brothers on the long trek to Siberia. It is never the brothers right next to
us, but the brothers in the abstract that are easy to love."
- Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement.
Come Celebrate with us!
We gather for worship and Eucharist every Monday 10 am—under
the Ramada behind the soup kitchen, 352 E. 25th St.
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Catholic Lifetime, 1981
