Here is an early work of Dorothy Day, who tells the story of her conversion from Communist journalist to Catholic Worker. Much of what she wrote here in 1938 would be taken up in her book "Loaves and Fishes", written more than a decade later. This first recounting of her faith journey, however, has a freshness and immediacy that the later work does not share. Part of this is because she write largely in the "second person" -- that is, she addresses her book to her brother, making an account of her heart and her life to this younger sibling with whom she shared so many ideals but not the Christian faith. Of course, this is part of the genre.
Dorothy Day published her reflections to her brother in book form, so I take this to mean that she wanted to direct her message it for many other brothers and sisters, unbelievers and believers. In telling her story, she raises the hot issues of social justice, human solidarity, faith in life, prayer and self-sufficiency, politics and ethos.

Day, Dorothy, 1897-1980

New York: Arno Press

The American Catholic tradition, New York, New York State, 1978

American Catholic tradition, New York, 1978 [©1938

United States, United States of America

June 1984

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Reprint of the 1940 issue of the ed. first published in 1938 by Preservation of the Faith Press, Silver Spring, Md.

x, 173 p. ; 21 cm
Reprint of the 1940 issue of the ed. first published in 1938 by Preservation of the Faith Press, Silver Spring, Md

2024-07-01