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Organization of Faith: The Catholic Worker Movement |
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Catholic Worker Center in Eugene, Oregon | |||||||||||
The Catholic Worker Movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, helps homeless women and children all around America. As of 1995, they had 131 communities nationwide. The communities, including St. Louis’ Karen House which serves as a CSP site for SLUH students, serve food and provide free housing to homeless wonen and children until they can make moer permanent arrangements for themselves.
Dorothy Day founded the first community in New York City, where she also began writing a newspaper of the same name, with articles promoting justice for all mankind and making the world a better place in which to live, in accordance with the Catholic Worker’s mission, “to live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ. Our sources are the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as handed down in the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, with our inspiration coming from the lives of the saints, "men and women outstanding in holiness, living witnesses to Your unchanging love." (Eucharistic Prayer)” (www.catholicworker.org) I chose the Catholic Worker because the organization and its workers and many volunteers sacrafice some to all of their time (depending on their personaly commitment to the movement) to helping needy souls by providing food and shelter, two basic needs, to any woman or child in need. They live out the works of mercy every day, and live truly seeing Jesus Christ in every person. To proclaiim by your actions that every person is Jesus Christ is a true measure of faith and Faith, because they must believe, they cannot prove, that Jesus is in every person, but they still treat them as such. |