THE

LITTLE

WAY

The publication of The Community of the Franciscan Way,

a Catholic Worker in the The Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina.

Vol. V, No. 4

St. Mary the Virgin15 August 2015

Report from the
Dorothy Day conference

Revealing the Veil

The Lord is With

Thee

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Page 5

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iWash: Why a Machine does NOT Wash our Dishes

Joe Sroka - Catholic Worker, CFW, Durham, NC

How one approaches a sink full of dirty at cleaning up after other people, I rarely stop to
dishes has become a frequent discussion topic think about how often others are cleaning up after
around the community. Each weekday morning, me.
after breakfast at St. Josephs, the remains of
This, I think, is applicable whether or not you
eggshells, cheese grits, and lukewarm coffee cover live in a house of hospitality or feed the hungry. The
the dishes and utensils. These dirty bowls, mugs, dishes that we dirty are as much a part of our lives as
and spoons are stacked so high that I usually wonder eating itself. And because dirty dishes are such a
in frustration why folks cannot clean up after consistent part of our lives nearly as certain as
themselves. The scene after a community dinner at death and taxes I think it is important for
the Maurin House looks much the same. I cannot Christians to reclaim the gift of our bodies and clean
help but think that a dirty dish left behind is a the dishes with our own hands. As Jesus said,
personal affront to my individual sense of Whatever you did for one of the least of these, you
responsibility. Why cant others wash their own did not mediate it through a dishwasher machine.
dishes like I do? These dirty dishes too easily carry
A common argument for the dishwasher
with them all of the frustrations and unmet machine is that it saves time or even creates extra
expectations I have of other people. Yet, in our time. This extra time could be used for more
community, washing the dishes of others is simply desirable pursuits, or this extra time could be a
something that we get used to doing quite bonus added onto the end of lives. Even Jerry
frequently. It becomes a habit. I propose, in fact, that Seinfeld has sarcastically picked up on the
how our community approaches washing dishes, in inadequacy of this position: What do you mean
conjunction with our corporate prayer and work, theres no time? I had a microwave oven, velcro
gets something right. For as often as I get frustrated sneakers, a clip-on tie. Where is that time?

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But only in a world of scarcity could this be a

pushing a button, it falls way short of the
reasonable line of thinking. In several prayers of
eucharistic ideal to offer our selves, our souls and
our Prayer Book, it is made clear that the Lord is a
bodies. At Compline, we also pray, grant that we
generous giver of giftswe, who constantly
may never forget that our common life depends upon
receive good things from thy handand that the
each others toil. It is not that we should all clean up
earth is capable of abundantly sustaining human
after ourselves and wash our own dish(es), rather
lifeO merciful Creator, whose hand is open
we know that toil and life shared with others are
wide to satisfy the needs of every living creature.
not separable. My life is sustained by the toil of
These prayers are said on Rogation Days, days
otherswhether it is my wifes work to earn a
when the Church asks (rogare to request) for the
paycheck, or Slim taking out my trash, or others
Lords protection and is thankful for the harvest.
bearing with my sarcasm and high expectations. If
There was a time when we depended on our own
we get the dishes right, how much else could be
bodies and those of others to make our living, and
right? Raising children? Caring for our elders?
even in America this was not
Praying will sustain the long,
unheard of a generation or two
hard toil that makes life with
ago. Thus, a Christian should
others possible.
see the world abundantly,
You may be wondering
given as gift by the Lord, rather
why I am coming down so
than as a scarcity. Machines
hard on the dishwasher. Dont I
that operate on non-human
realize that we all work very
power,
particularly
the
hard and deserve a little break?
dishwasher, cultivate within us
The dishes are just one more
harmful ideas that time is
thing to do at the end of the
scarce and that we must hurry
day. Dont I realize that there
off to the next thing. Rather
are
bigger
issues
for
than being a tool that we can
Christians than renouncing this
master and through which we
small kitchen appliance? That
can instill our meaning onto the
is precisely the point. It is the
world, the dishwasher masters
little way of washing dishes
us and determines for us our
by hand that commits us to the
own self-image. This is a selfparticular tasks and people
image
that
justifies
our
who make up our lives. If
I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all
insatiable
consumption
of
relationships are real and
ecstasies, and I want to spend my heaven doing
commodities and reinforces good on earth said St. Thrse of Lisieux, also direct, and separation and
our position as the center of known as the "Little Flower.
harm can actually be done to a
our own universe.
relationship, then how we do
When we wash our dishes by hand, we put
dishes is a matter of life and death. Washing the
into faithful action the words that we pray: O
dishes by hand, then, can become another Christian
God, who art the author of peace and lover of
discipline, like prayer, fasting, or almsgiving, that
concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our
can make us little Christs. Washing each others
eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom. It is in
dishes is just an acknowledgement of the
service to the Lord that we find perfect freedom.
interdependent relationships I share with the
And as far as we see Christ in the face of others,
hungry, my friends, my spouse, and my son. Why
our service to them is freedom too. Despite our best
would I mediate those relationships through a
attempts to serve the Lord and others by simply
dishwasher machine?+
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Report from the Dorothy Day and the Church:

Past, Present , and Future Conference
Fr. Colin and Mrs. Leigh Miller
Missioner, CFW, Durham, NC and Associate Rector, Church of the Good Shepherd, Raleigh, NC
On May 13-15, Leigh and I attended the first
academic conference on Dorothy Day, the
cofounder with Peter Maurin, of the Catholic
Worker Movement. The event was hosted by St.
Francis University in the small town of Fort Wayne,
Indiana, a few hours southeast of Chicago. In the
background of the conference, and at times in the
foreground, was the fact
that Dorothys cause for
sainthood has been taken
up in the Roman Catholic
Church. She has been
declared a Servant of
God, the first step in the
canonization process.
Several
hundred
people
attended,
and
among these a wide variety.
These ranged from four
Bishops (the Bishop of
South Bend-Fort Wayne, the
Metropolitans
of
Indianapolis
and
Los
Angeles, and one Romanian
Catholic Bishop), numerous
academics (Protestant and
Catholic; graduate students,
professors
and
independents), a number of priests, to local
students, to many Catholic Workers (including
some who lived with Dorothy in New York in the
70s!), and to lay leaders of various ministries
somehow related to the work of the Catholic
Worker. We spent time especially getting to know a
Nazarene graduate student at the University of
Dayton, a Catholic Worker from New Orleans, and
a Catholic Worker farmer from the Midwest.
Meeting these people with variant interests and
stakes in the life of Dorothy was a wonderful
experience, giving us confidence that there are
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many others doing the same work we are

throughout the country. Thats a big deal, since in
our day to day work, we can sometimes wonder if
the life weve chosen is crazy.
The conference solicited papers on all areas
of Dorothys life and legacy, and so the varieties of
papers and session topics ranged greatly. There
was one session each day
with papers on Dorothy
and distributivism, which
the Aims and Means of the
Catholic Worker names as
its position on government
organization, but which has
only begun to receive
serious thought (Catholic
Workers are not necessarily
anarchists per se, though
distinguishing between the
two was part of the task). I
presented a paper on
Dorothys relationship to
Peters program, arguing
that though she learned
much from Peter, she
remained captive to a sort
of American idealism that
Peter
himself
rejected.
Leighs paper was on the confluence of Dorothys
Catholic Worker movement and the Friendship
House movement of Catherine Doherty that
happened independent of, but at the same time as,
Dorothys houses. Dorothy and Catherine became
good friends. As such, Catholic Worker-type
houses like these present themselves as one,
although arguably a central, alternative to
communism on the one hand and unfettered
capitalism on the other. One of my favorite
presentations was from the man who lived with
Dorothy in the New York Catholic Worker,
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discussing Dorothys (unfavorable) reaction to the

famous poster of her that came out at that time.
You can find this poster at the Maurin House, and
it quotes the filthy rotten system at the bottom.
Dorothy, he said, said she didnt ever say that, and
that she was disgusted by its crudeness and lack of
subtlety. The conference proceedings, with about 30
papers in all, are forthcoming.
Outside of papers and meals, the Eucharist
was celebrated each day, a documentary on
Dorothy was shown, and plenary speakers came.
These included the aforementioned Archbishop of
Los Angeles, the granddaughter of Dorothy,
Martha Hennessey, Robert Ellsberg (biographer of
Dorothy), a reporter on the progress of Dorothys
sainthood cause, and a couple of other famous
lay-ministry leaders.
The Catholic Worker is sometimes known
for being on the fringes of the Church in one way
or another. But I came away from the conference
newly invigorated that we are part of a large, deep
movement supported by and supporting large
swathes of the Church. The unity of the Church

and its support for the Worker was embodied in

the conference itself. At the Eucharist on
Wednesday, the Archbishop of Indianapolis
applauded the effort of the Workers in his
archdiocese, and the Bishop of Fort Wayne-South
Bend invited a House to begin work in Fort Wayne.
Archbishop Gomez of the five million-member
archdiocese of LA gave a presentation on Dorothys
inspiration in his life, saying he regularly reads her
writings, and that she makes me want to be a
saint. Fittingly, the conference was held at the
University whose patron is arguably the patron
saint of the movement, St. Francis. The school was
founded by the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual
Adoration, who have been adoring the Eucharist
for some 130 years uninterrupted. One of my
favorite images was the procession of clergy and
bishops in the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart
passing the habited sisters who took up two pews.
I couldnt help asking one of the youngest sisters,
barely 19, to keep us in her prayers. She said shed
put our name on the list in their chapel that the
sisters read before the Host.+

SMART PHONE?
The idols of the heathen are silver and gold,
the work of human hands.
They have mouths, but they cannot speak;
eyes have they, but they cannot see;
They have ears, but they cannot hear;
noses; but they cannot smell;
They have hands, but they cannot feel;
feet, but they cannot walk;
they make no sound with their throat.
Those who make them are like them,
and so are all who put their trust in them.
Psalms 115:4-8 and 135:15-18
Credit: Manu Cornet
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St. Marys Veil

Fr. Gregory Tipton

Campus Missioner, The Episcopal Center at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Marys Veil stands as a seductive contrast to
Nowadays, University culture specializes in
exposing and unveiling the flattened power of
the false seductions of our world. I am a campus
selves. Everywhere is nakedness and exposure
missioner at The University of Georgia at St.
to nakedness. However, this is not a return to the
Marys Chapel. Thats a fancy way of saying I
Edenic nakedness of infancy. Rather, it is akin to
serve as a priest: teaching, preaching, giving
Ham exposing the nakedness of his father, Noah.
pastoral care, administering the sacraments and
Every generation must expose the one prior to it.
doing missions at a secular university. I am sent
Each person must feign for the common good, and
into a pagan world that somehow believes in
when it is determined such
Naturalism
and
Idealism
pursuits are arbitrary, each
simultaneously.
In other
person
is
unveiled,
words,
students
espouse
overthrown, and replaced with
Material Reduction when
the next generations leader.
talking hard sciences, and
This is how the University
Formal
Reduction
when
culture grows. To call oneself
talking
social
sciences.
educated is to say nothing
(Basically, we're pack animals
other than one can hide their
in biology class, but individual
preferences while unveiling
selvesnot to be treated as
others. (Its no coincidence
animalsendowed
with
that students at the end of a
inalienable" rights in political
week of this unveiling go
science class.) Now, this is no
downtown to unveil their own
mean-spirited judgment, but
peers nakedness for a night of
rather a simple observation of
mutual abuse and use, so long
the philosophical incoherence
as its a mutual unveiling.
rampant among university
When a relationship forms out
students.
Both Naturalism
of this practice, eventually one
and Idealism are Neo-Pagan
unveils the others desire as
modes of thinking that cannot
Credit: Nicholas Markell
simply a power play. And so
be reconciled with one
college students dont receive an education, nor do
another. How did this come about?
they receive Eros in their time. Instead, they get
In the 1960s, Foucault and other Antideprived of a full image of what it might look like
Platonists following Hobbes effectively turned
to be a happy human).
everything into a matter of power. This was a
When we Christians speak, we speak of
departure from the power of the soul. Instead,
ourselves as ourselves, our souls and bodies. By
power was to be understood as a quality emerging
this, we understand the Self not as some prefrom quantifiable commodities. This was either a
existent, prime entity, but as a reflexive term
contradiction or a superstition, since qualities do
referring to what we areand what we are are
not
magically
emerge
from
quantities.
souls and bodies.
Nevertheless, the Self's power replaced the Soul's
power, and all power was deemed a corrupting
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thing which must always be overthrown.
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But what is a soul? What is a body? In the Christian Dialogue, weve come to understand that the soul is an
inner principle of motion consisting of three powers or capacities: appetitive, passionate, and rational.; and
the body is the stuff, the matter: quarks, atoms, cells, organs, flesh, vessels, &c. We are rational beings that
think, wonder, reflect, and will as ensouled bodies. As a reminder of this, I have on my window an icon of
The Blessed Virgin Mary given to me by two former residents of CFW houses. A plain reading is that Mary
is veiled: we never actually see Marys hair. What exactly is she hiding? Why dont we unveil her and reveal
the power the Churchs Mother is hiding!? Underneath is Our Ladys inner life, the motion of her soul. But
here is the spiritual reading: divinity dwells in her soul and it is reflected in how her body acts. She becomes
a mirror to her son. This is a meaning of My Soul Doth Magnify The Lord because it is her holiness, her
very soul and body in its habitual activity towards God and neighbor (in that order) that glorifies the Lord.
Just as her Son is the divinity-itself veiled in flesh, so too her soul is an image of the divinity reflected
through a veiled mirror.
Like the Centurions around the Cross, Neo-Pagans wish to strip the Church of her veil. Our culture
exposes and abuses persons in arbitrary acts of a will to power, while simultaneously (and I would add
incoherently) veiling those acts behind a false edifice of rights language. In contrast, we follow Christ who
veils himself in a cloud, in words to a prophet, in St. Marys womb, in a bodily flesh, in bread, and in wine.
We follow Mary who veiled herself as Christ veiled himself. This seems strange since it may seem to be a lie,
but this is only because the World would have us seduced by the false unveiling of self-interested power.
Our Ladys powerthat is, Christs power, the Churchs poweris different altogether: we wrap ourselves
in the veil of Christic practices of prayer, community, and hospitality, exposing ourselves to one another in
the vulnerability of Eucharistic worship. Is not exposure to such a veiling the greatest seduction of all?

Credit: Fritz Eichenberg

Almighty Father you condescended to us by sending your Son veiled in flesh and blood that we might be
seduced little by little into the ways of life everlasting: give us the character of true seduction, that we might not
fall into temptation nor sin, but be ever clothed in the veil of righteousness and peace, and at last come into the
kingdom of thy saints where all are veiled in the light of the true Light along with the Queen of Heaven, Christs
own mother and the first of all the saints, through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Ghost,
be praise and glory as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.+

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The Lord is With Thee, a sermon

by Mark Franck (1613-1664)
Caroline Divine and Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Dominus tecum [the Lord is with thee], the
pattern by the Angel, to give her no more than is
Lord Christs being with Mary, is the chief business
her due, yet to be sure to give her that, and
the Church especially commemorates in this day.
particularly upon this day.
Her being blessed, and all our being blessed,
Blessed is the virgin soul, more blessed than
highly favoured, or favoured at all, either men or
others; blessed the humble spirit above all. For
women being so, all our hail, all our health, and
God hath exalted the humble and meek; none so
peace, and joy, all the angels visits to us, or kind
happy, so blessed as she; the Lord comes to none so
words, all our conferences with heaven, all our
soon as such. Yet not to such at any time more fully
titles and honours in heaven and earth, that are
than in the blessed Sacrament to which we are aworth the naming,
going. There he is
come only from it.
strangely with us,
For Dominus tecum
highly favours us,
cannot
come
exceedingly blesses
without them; he
us; there we are all
cannot come to us
made
blessed
but we must be so,
Marys, and become
must
be
highly
mothers, sisters, and
favoured in it, and
brothers
of
our
blessed by it. So the
Lord, whilst we
Incarnation
of
hear this word, and
Christ,
and
the
conceive it in us;
Annunciation of the
whilst we believe
blessed Virginhis
him who is the
being incarnate of
Word, and receive
her,
and
her
him too unto us.
Credit: Jed Gibbons and Harvest Crittenden
blessedness by him,
There angels come
all our blessedness in him with her, make it as well
to us on heavenly errands, and there our Lord
our Lords as our Ladys day. More his, because his
indeed is with us, and we are blessed, and the
being Lord made her a Lady, else a poor
angels hovering all about us to peep into those
carpenters wife, God knows; all her worthiness
holy mysteries, think us so, call us so. There graces
and honour, as all ours, is from him; and we take
pour down in abundance on us; there grace is in its
heed today, or any day, of parting them; or so
fullest plenty; there his highest favours are
remembering her, as to forget him; or so blessing
bestowed upon us; there we are filled with grace
her, as to take away any of our blessing him; any of
unless we hinder it, and shall hereafter in the
his worship, to give to her. Let her blessedness, the
strength of it be exalted into glory, there to sit
respect we give her, be among women, still; such
down with this blessed Virgin and all the saints
as is fit and proportionate to weak creatures, not
and angels, and sing praise, and honour, and glory,
due and proper only to the Creator, that Dominus
to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, for ever and
tecum, Christ in her be the business; that we take
ever.+
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Easy Essays
by Peter Maurin (1877-1949)
Founder of the Catholic Worker

They and We
1. People say:
"They don't do this,
they don't do that,
they ought to do this,
they ought to do that."
2. Always They
and never I".
3. People should say:
"They are crazy
for doing this
and not doing that
but I don't need
to be crazy
the way they are crazy."
4. The Communitarian Revolution
is basically
a personal revolution.
5. It starts with I
not with They.
6. One I plus one I
makes two I
and two I makes We.
7. "We" is a community
while "they" is a crowd.

By Kelly Steele

Regard for the Soil

1. Andrew Nelson Lytle says:
The escape from industrialism
is not in socialism
or in sovietism.
2. The answer lies
in a return to a society
where agriculture is practiced
by most of the people.
3. It is in fact impossible
for any culture
to be sound and healthy
without a proper regard
for the soil,
no matter
how many urban dwellers
think that their food
comes from groceries
and delicatessens
or their milk from tin cans.
4. This ignorance
does not release them
from a final dependence
upon the farm.

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A Selection from On Pilgrimage

by Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
Founder of the Catholic Worker
Reprinted from The Catholic Worker newspaper, December 1965
When a mother, a housewife, asks what she can do, one can only point to the way of St. Thrse, that
little way, so much misunderstood and so much despised. She did all for the love of God, even to putting up
with the irritation in herself caused by the proximity of a nervous nun. She began with working for peace in
her own heart, and willing to love where love was difficult, and so she grew in love, and increased the sum
total of love in the world, not to speak of peace.
[John Henry Cardinal] Newman wrote: "Let us but raise the level of religion in our hearts, and it will
rise in the world. He who attempts to set up God's kingdom in his heart, furthers it in the world." And this
goes for the priest, too, wherever he is, whether he deals with the problem of war or with poverty. He may
write and speak, but he needs to study the little way, which is all that is available to the poor, and the only
alternative to the mass approach of the State. Missionaries throughout the world recognize this little way of
cooperatives and credit unions, small industry, village commune and cottage economy. And not only
missionaries. Down in our own South, in the Delta regions among the striking farmers of Mississippi, this
"little way" is being practiced and should be studied.
From California comes news this month, not only of the strike in the Delano region of the grape
pickers, well covered by the National Catholic Reporter, but a letter too of co-op development in the California
Valley. "We have visions of a complex of co-ops in the California Valley, owned and controlled by the farm
workers. It will be interesting to see how long it takes vision to be translated into reality."
Dom [Jean-Baptiste] Chautard, in his Soul of the Apostolate, in answer to the question as to how to find
workers in all these vineyards, called attention to our Lord's words: "Pray ye therefore, for workers." So
right where we are, at this moment, we can pause and send up such a prayer.
The Lord knows we need to around the Catholic Worker. Sometimes it seems that the more
volunteers there are around the place, the less gets done. I have letters from six volunteers on my desk now.
Not only are all the beds full, so that we cannot put them up for the Chrystie Street work, but also, it seems
in regard to these we already have that their interest in peace keeps them from the clothes room, or from the
paper work connected with the thirty or more subscriptions which are coming in each day. Paper work is
scorned and yet it is an essential when you are dealing with the people who receive the eighty-five
thousand copies of the paper which go out each month. Paper work, cleaning the house, cooking the meals,
dealing with the innumerable visitors who come all through the day, answering the phone, keeping patience
and acting intelligently, which is to find some meaning in all these encounters--these things too are the work
of peace, and often seem like a very little way.
But as Pope John told the pilgrimage of women, Mothers for Peace, the seventy-five of us who went
over to Rome to thank him for his encyclical Pacem in Terris, just the month before his death, "the beginnings
of peace are in your own hearts, in your own families, schoolrooms, offices, parishes, and neighborhoods."
It is working from the ground up, from the poverty of the stable, in work as at Nazareth, and also in
going from town to town, as in the public life of Jesus two thousand years ago. And since a thousand years
are as one day, and Christianity is but two days old, let us take heart and start now.+
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Panhandling and Community News

Tyler Hambley - Catholic Worker, CFW, Durham, NC
and Youth Minister, Church of the Holy Family, Chapel Hill, NC
In continuing an emerging tradition of welcoming a new baby with every edition of The Little Way, on
21 July, we celebrated the birth of Edith Sarah Miller. The families of both Fr. Colin and Leigh Miller
subsequently made visits. Likewise, Canon Emily Hylden (Trinity Cathedral, Columbia, SC) came to see Edith
and the community. Emily celebrated the Holy Eucharist with us and brought plenty of delicious vegetables for
a Friday night community dinner. In diaspora, Luke and Natalie Wetzel (All Saints Episcopal Church,
Thomasville, GA) welcomed Andrew James on 24 June.
We were concerned that the next edition of The Little Way would be without a new baby announcement.
However, our Advent issue should put us back on track as Joe and Michelle Sroka graciously volunteered to fill
the gap for us. Their next baby is expected around Christmas.
We have continued our twice weekly work days at Granite Springs Farm, Pittsboro, NC. Even William
Sroka and Oliver Hambley have made multiple trips. They are collaborating on holding a conference for Infant
Farmers in the Catholic Worker tradition. Both hope to recruit Edith Sarah as a third member of their young
society.
On 20 June, we attended the ordination to the transitional diaconate of Molly Short (Chaplain, St.
Andrews-Sewanee School, TN). Molly and Michaels time with us was a great source of encouragement.
Finally, the Rev. Daniel Moore, also a transitional deacon, assisted Fr. Colin at our service of the Holy
Eucharist several times this summer. Daniel and his family recently moved to Naples, FL where he begins a
curacy at Trinity-by-the-Cove Episcopal Church.+

BOOKS WEVE BEEN READING

Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew B. Crawford
Bringing Up Bb: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting, Pamela Druckerman
The Unintended Reformation, Brad S. Gregory
The Right to Useful Unemployment, Ivan Illich
Rivers North of the Future, Ivan Illich as told to David Cayley
In the Penal Colony, Franz Kafka
The Recent Unpleasantness, Harold Lewis
Minding the Modern, Thomas Pfau
Philosophys Artful Conversation, D.N. Rodowick
Requiem for the Ego, Alfred I. Tauber
Garden Spot, David Walbert
St. Cyril of Alexandria
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Weekly Schedule
At St. Josephs Episcopal Church
(1902 W. Main St., Durham)
Morning Prayer: 7:30am Mon-Fri
Breakfast: 8:00am Mon-Fri
Evening Prayer: 5:30pm Mon-Fri
At St. Clare Chapel, Maurin House
(1116 Iredell St., Durham)
Holy Eucharist 6:25am Mon-Fri
Evensong: 6:00pm Sun
Supper: 6:30pm Fri, Sun
Compline: 8:30pm, Fri, Sun

Donate These Things!

Salad spinner
Milk and Cereal
Plumbing/carpentry help
$30k for a Priests Salary
Coffee
Laundry detergent
Dish soap
Toilet paper
13-gallon trash bags
Grocery cards
Wheat sandwich bread

All are welcome anytime.

Editors
Fr. Justin Fletcher
Dr. Crystal Hambley
Tyler Hambley
Leigh Miller
Fr. Gregory Tipton

Fr. Colin Miller

Joe Sroka
Michelle Sroka
Fr. Mac Stewart

Contact Us
The best way to get involved is to come to the
Daily Office at St. Josephs Episcopal Church,
Monday through Friday at 7:30am and 5:30pm.
You can reach Fr. Colin at 919-BUM-CHIN or
the Peter Maurin House at 919-BUM-1-CFW.

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The Little Way is theregularpublication of The Community of the Franciscan Way, a Catholic Worker and Mission of
the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. We seek a life of prayer, humility, simplicity, and voluntary poverty
alongside the poor. Committed to theCatholic Worker movement, founded in 1933 by Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day,
we advocate forpersonalism, a decentralized society, and a green revolution through nonviolence, the works of mercy,
manual labor, and voluntary poverty. Eleven permanent residents currently live inthe Peter Maurin Catholic Worker
House. Funds and donations are directly used for the performance of the corporeal and spiritual works of mercy, and no
one in the House draws any compensation from contributions.

Oliver at Granite Springs Farm.

The Corporal Works of Mercy

To feed the hungry
To give drink to the thirsty
To clothe the naked
To harbor the harborless
To visit the sick
To ransom the captive
To bury the dead

The Community of the Franciscan Way

Peter Maurin Catholic Worker House

1116 Iredell Street
Durham, NC 27705
(919) BUM-1-CFW
cfw.dionc.org

Altar at St. Clare Chapel.

Edith.

The Spiritual Works of Mercy

To instruct the uninformed
To counsel the doubtful
To admonish sinners
To bear wrongs patiently
To forgive offenses willingly
To comfort the afflicted
To pray for the living and the dead