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It is impossible to have a healthy and sound society without a proper respect for the soil.
If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy.
In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.
In the first centuries of Christianity the hungry were fed at a personal sacrifice, the naked were clothed at a personal sacrifice, the homeless were sheltered at a personal sacrifice ... And the pagans used to say about the Christians, "See how they love each other." In our own day the poor are no longer fed, clothed, and sheltered at a personal sacrifice, but at the expense of the taxpayers. And because of this the pagans say about the Christians, "See how they pass the buck."
I want a change, and a radical change. I want a change from an acquisitive society to a functional society, from a society of go-getters to a society of go-givers.
The world would become better off
If people tried to become better.
And people would become better
If they stopped trying to become better off.
People who don't think, act and people who act, don't think.
The future will be different if we make the present different.
Modern society calls the beggar bum and panhandler and gives him the bum's rush. But the Greeks used to say that people in need are the ambassadors of the gods
What we give to the poor for Christ's sake, is what we carry with us when we die.
The coat that hangs in your closet belongs to the poor.
