DORTHY DAY FROM COMMON PRAYER; A LITURGY FOR ORDINARY RADICALS 29NOV2020

 THANK God for the faith, service and example of Dorothy Day!

Daily Prayers for November 29

Dorothy Day (1897 – 1980)

Dorothy Day was born in Brooklyn in 1897. She worked as a journalist for radical newspapers in the 1920s and found most of her friends in the bohemian crowds that gathered in Greenwich Village. While living with a man she loved in 1926, she became pregnant and experienced a mysterious conversion to -Jesus. As a Roman Catholic, she struggled to unite her personal faith with passion for social justice until she met Peter Maurin, with whom she founded the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933. Through hospitality houses in the city, agronomic universities on the land, and roundtable discussions for the clarification of thought, they aimed to “create a new society within the shell of the old,” offering American Christianity the witness of a new monasticism that combines piety and practice, charity and justice.

O Lord, let my soul rise up to meet you

as the day rises to meet the sun.

Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,

as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.

Come, let us sing to the Lord : let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.

Song “Come, Thou Fount”

Teach us, Lord, every day : the duty of delight.

Psalm 139:10 – 16

If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me : and the light around me turn to night,”

darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day : darkness and light to you are both alike.

For you yourself created my inmost parts : you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I will thank you because I am marvelously made : your works are wonderful, and I know it well.

My body was not hidden from you : while I was being made in secret and woven in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes beheld my limbs, yet unfinished in the womb; all of them were written in your book : they were fashioned day by day, when as yet there was none of them.

How deep I find your thoughts, O God! : how great is the sum of them!

Teach us, Lord, every day : the duty of delight.

Micah 7:1 – 10 Mark 13:24 – 31

Teach us, Lord, every day : the duty of delight.

Dorothy Day said, “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.”

Prayers for Others

Our Father

Lord, you show us the same compassion and commitment that a mother has for her tiny child. Teach us to care so completely. Show us how to delight in serving with the same joy you show in nurturing your creation. Amen.

May the peace of the Lord Christ go with you : wherever he may send you;

may he guide you through the wilderness : protect you through the storm;

may he bring you home rejoicing : at the wonders he has shown you;

may he bring you home rejoicing : once again into our doors.

Fix the Debt's New Email: Too Cruel to Laugh, Too Ridilulous to Cry 23DEZ12

Those who oppress the poor insult their Maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor [God].
- Proverbs 14:31 
Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.
-Dorothy Day 
FIX THE DEBT is nothing but a propaganda campaign for the rich, wall street, the bank-financial cabal and the military industrial complex to protect their tax breaks, wealth and hold on power. Don't be deceived, they do not have your best interest in mind. Read my earlier post Defense Lobby Wins, Middle Class Loses In Obama Debt Proposal 19DEZ12 http://bucknacktssordidtawdryblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/defense-lobby-wins-middle-class-loses.html 
and if you want to let the President know your opinion e mail the White House at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments
your Senators at http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm 
and your Representative at http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/ 
And if you think I am anti-miltary, think again. I support our troops but not the obscene profit margins of the military-industrial complex and the disgusting waste by the Pentagon. Check out 7 Shocking Ways the Military Wastes Our Money 11DEZ12 http://bucknacktssordidtawdryblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/7-shocking-ways-military-wastes-our.html
This from HuffPost.....

Fix the Debt, a front group for corporations, billionaires, and defense contractors, wants people to call their Representatives and demand that they avoid the "fiscal cliff."
The group's latest email is so badly written that it cries out for laughter, but its potential consequences call out for tears.
The writing borders on the unintelligble, as when it urges people to contact their Member of Congress and say this:

"I'm calling to urge the Represntative (sic) to pass an agreement to tackle our nation's debt crisis that is supported by members of both parties that both raises revenue and cuts government spending in order to pave the way for a strong economic future."
Now try saying it three times fast.
It's easy to make fun of something this inept, and the overpaid cynics at Fix the Debt - and fellow shell organizations like the Committee For a Responsible Federal Budget - certainly have it coming. But this time they've crossed a line. They're claiming to speak in the very interests of the people who would be most hurt by their actions.
Shame on them.
The email provides a script to be used when calling your Representative. They suggest you begin by saying that the deficit "matters to me because ______________".
It then offers three "helpful" examples of how that sentence might be completed, by a concerned parent, a small business owner, and a veteran - three of the many populations whose financial security would be gravely wounded by Fix the Debt's political agenda.
That doesn't mean everybody would be hurt by it, of course. Here are some scripts that the group's real beneficiaries might want to use:
-- I'm rich as hell - I mean, I'm not naming figures, but we're talking stinkin' rich - and I want to cut Social Security and Medicare while lowering my own corporate and personal taxes. 
-- I'm a corporate CEO who's been shipping jobs overseas, and we've had record profits while paying record-low amounts to the IRS. But that's not enough. I want to do even less for my country. 
-- I'm a defense contractor and, while I thank you for the break you've already given me this week, I really need to make sure I don't sacrifice even a tiny bit in the name of deficit reduction. 
-- I invest in the for-profit health industry and business is booming. I want you to do everything you can to undermine Medicare and Medicaid so I can pump up my profits even more. 
-- I'm a Wall Street executive and I'm expecting to get more 401(k) investment funds once you gut Social Security. I also receive a deeply perverse satisfaction from not helping to fix the economy I destroyed, and I'm counting on you not to harsh my mellow.
Now here are Fix the Debt's own sample phone scripts. We've added some additional dialog, and given each one a name:
Competitive Spirit
Fix the Debt phone-in script: I am a small business owner and my success and the jobs of my employees depend on a strong economy.  (Note: Bad grammar is theirs.)
Additional dialog: So please pass a bill that favors billionaires and giant corporations, while gutting the Small Business Administration and other programs that help folks like me.
I especially like that "chained CPI," which forces middle-class people into higher tax brackets and deprives them of even more money they might otherwise have spent on consumer goods.  That will lower demand, making it even more unlikely that my competitors and I will be able to grow, prosper, and hire more workers.
I really hate my competitors.
A Better Life
Fix the Debt phone-in script: I am a parent and don't want to kick the can down the road for my kids' generation to deal with crippling national debt or a double dip recession. (Note: Bad grammar is theirs.)
Additional dialog: So please implement the "chained CPI," which will gut their future Social Security benefits while raising their taxes throughout their working lives. I also want a plan that arbitrarily reduces Medicare benefits over time so there's nothing left by the time they get old.
My college-aged kids are graduating to record-level unemployment, too, but please don't spend any money to help with that.
Please cut education funding, too, from elementary school all the way up to Pell grants. Education's the key to advancement, and right now my kids dream of a better life than the one we had.
I really resent that.
Some Gave All
Fix the Debt phone-in script: I am a veteran, and I know that our nation's fiscal strength is a matter of national security.
Additional dialog: So please help defense contractors like the ones who did all that defective wiring and killed my friends over in Iraq.
Please be sure to implement the "chained CPI" while you're at it, too, since more than nine million of my fellow vets are on Social Security.  Way I see it, they haven't sacrificed enough for their country.
Four thousand children who lost a parent in Iraq get Social Security benefits too. I know I told my buddy over there I'd look after his kids if something happened, but what the hell: maybe you folks and all your friends in Washington are right..
Maybe those kids haven't sacrificed enough either.


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تدع أي بينكم من هو بلا خطيئة يلقي الحجر الأول يسوع وفقا لإنجيل يوحنا LET THOSE AMONG YOU WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE & 08:05

ALL those engaged in physical and verbal violence over the innocence of muslims should consider the following

 The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery; and making her stand before all of them, they said to him, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?” … Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” 
- John 8:3-5

"What would you do if an armed maniac were to attack you, your child, your mother? How many times have we heard this. Restrain him, of course, but not kill him. Confine him if necessary. But perfect love casts out fear and love overcomes hatred. All this sounds trite but experience is not trite." - Dorothy Day from The Long Loneliness جميع يجب أن أولئك الذين يعملون في العنف الجسدي واللفظي على براءة المسلمين مراعاة ما يلي الكتبة والفريسيون امرأة جلبت الذي كان قد وقعوا في الزنا، وجعل موقفها قبل كل منهم، وقالوا له: «يا معلم، هذه المرأة ضبطت في فعل الزنا بارتكاب جدا. الآن في القانون أمر موسى لنا للنساء حجر من هذا القبيل. الآن ماذا تقول؟ "... واسمحوا أي شخص بينكم من هو بلا خطيئة تكون أول من رمي الحجر في وجهها." - جون 8:3-5 "طفلك ماذا ستفعل إذا كان مهووس المسلحة كانت للهجوم عليك،، أمك؟ كم مرة سمعنا هذا. تقييده، بالطبع، ولكن ليس قتله. حصر له إذا لزم الأمر. بل المحبة الكاملة تطرح الخوف إلى خارج والحب يتغلب على الكراهية. كل هذا يبدو مبتذلة ولكن التجربة ليست مبتذلة ". - دوروثي اليوم من الشعور بالوحدة طويل

INDIVIDUAL PEACE

"An individual can march for peace or vote for peace and can have, perhaps, some small influence on global concerns. But the same individual is a giant in the eyes of a child at home. If peace is to be built, it must start with the individual. It is built brick by brick."
- Dorothy Day

SERVICE OR LIP SERVICE???

" … If those professing religion shared the life of the poor and worked to better their lot, and risked their lives as revolutionists do, and trade union organizers have done in the past, then there is a ring of truth about the promises of the glory to come. The cross is followed by the resurrection."
- Dorothy Day

HOPE, HOPELESS, AND CHANGE

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the U.S. around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better. - Daniel Berrigan, poet, peace activist, and priest.

Hope is the strongest driving force for a people. Hope which brings about change, which produces new realities, is what opens man's road to freedom. Once hope has taken hold, courage must unite with wisdom. That is the only way of avoiding violence, the only way of maintaining the calm one needs to respond peacefully to offenses. - Oscar Arias Sanchez, excerpted from his 1987 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's too much work to do. - Dorothy Day, The Catholic Worker