Dorothy s daily life began with prayer and ended with prayer including reading of the Psalms, Mass, and vespers. She regularly confessed and made retreats. For Dorothy no kingdom was worth striving for unless it was grounded in such a regimen. To be in her presence when she kneeled in prayer was to experience a woman who talked with God. I was trying to be a loyal servant of the Church Jesus had founded.
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People are losing sight of the primacy of the spiritual. She became very disenchanted with the antiwar movement of the 1960s, which she and the Catholic Worker had helped start the first draft-card burners were from the CW . Tenebrae, for instance, and Ember Days, Benediction. . . . I wonder why my grandchildren have to go in for Zen breathing exercises. Moreover, she felt the Church must make a bold witness against the casualness and hedonism of American society.