num_pages: 100
description: This volume invites you to make a retreat with Oscar Romero and Dorothy Day, Catholics who believed passionately in the dignity of every human being and who confronted the roots of injustice and violence in the worlds where God placed them.-----------------------------------------This retreat series offers you the opportunity to make a retreat with some great saint or holy person from history. Among the retreat directors you will find such saints as Ignatius and Dominic, Francis and Clare of Assisi, and outstanding contemporary figures such as Thomas Merton and Jessica Powers. Under the guidance of series editor Gloria Hutchinson, some favorite authors weave the mentor's own words into seven days of prayer and deepening acquaintance. Each retreat closes with suggestions for continuing the relationship. Your directors for this retreat, Walking With the Poor, are Oscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador in El Salvador, and Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. Both mentors believed passionately in the dignity of every human being. Both pursued the roots of injustice and violence and confronted the powerful in Church and state. Both opened their eyes to see the reality of poverty and allowed that sight to change their lives. Both experienced the importance of community in support of the discipleship journey. Their journeys suggest to us that when life is seen through the eyes of poor people and lived in response to that vision, a deep, rich spirituality and serious engagement in social transformation result. By their efforts they became examples to all of us of gospel faithfulness in our times. Series editor GLORIA HUTCHINSON has written extensively on the spiritual life. Her books include Six Ways to Pray From Six Great Saints, Praying the Way: Reflections on the Stations of the Cross and Praying the Rosary: New Reflections on the Mysteries (St. Anthony Messenger Press). MARIE ADELE DENNIS works for the Maryknoll Society Justice and Peace Office as associate for Latin America. She has written extensively on social justice and peace, including Seeds of Life, Seeds of Death (Pax Christi USA). She contributed to Say to This Mountain and St. Francis and the Foolishness of God (Orbis Books).
language: English
title: A Retreat With Oscar Romero and Dorothy Day: Walking With the Poor
titlecomplete: A Retreat With Oscar Romero and Dorothy Day: Walking With the Poor
genres: Prayer
ratings_count: 14
series: A Retreat With
publisher: Franciscan Media