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15 Days of Prayer with Dorothy Day

Oct 9, 2013

Michael Boover shares Dorothy Day’s reflections about her pilgrimage to the daily discipline of readiness and openness to God in her life, especially to God in her neighbour.

Coming soon (Publication Date – November 2013)

Dorothy Day connected radical faith with doing radical deeds. Beginning from her discovery of God in the Word when she was eight years old, Michael Boover shares Dorothy’s reflections about her pilgrimage to the daily discipline of readiness and openness to God in her life, especially to God in her neighbor. He shares her words on why and how she prays, on her preference for frequent confession, on her intentional choice of suffering and poverty, and on her desire to imitate the saints and to make sanctity the norm of everyone’s life. Read more

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