"I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least." -Dorothy Day
While a student at Harvard I took a couple of classes with Dr. Harvey Cox. For his Christian Lives course, we were assigned video projects in which groups created documentaries on various Christian lives (per the title of the course). It was at this point in my life when I was going through what might be called the "Dorothy Day phase" of my nascent Catholicism; thus, a video project devoted to the life, conversion, and radical Catholicism of Dorothy Day was a perfect fit. I was fortunate to devote my semester to reading Day's communist-cum-Catholic writings, learning all about the Catholic Worker movement, visiting the Catholic Worker houses in Boston (Haley House) and in New York City (St Joseph House and Maryhouse), and interviewing scholars and workers such as Robert Coles, Jacqueline Landry, and Kathe McKenna who either knew Dorothy Day and/or who continue to carry on her mission still today. Although I never saved a copy of the video our group made, I continue to admire Day for her transformative merging of radical protest and obedient prayer in the fulfillment of Christ's kingdom here on earth: "The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them" (All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day).
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