Our communal meal on Sunday, January 25th will be a pizza party fundraiser to celebrate Theo’s 36 years of life and 16 years with the Catholic Worker! Instead of our normal monthly potluck, we’ll be getting together starting at 5 PM at our community house, 8617 Mora Lane, for pizza, beer, sparkling water, and (as is the tradition for this annual event) Jarritos. We’re asking for a $15 suggested donation, but we're operating on the honor system and no one is ever turned away because they can’t pay. Help us guess how many pizzas to order by letting us know if you’re coming via email to StLouisCatholicWorker@gmail. com , but show up anyway if you forgot to rsvp! Can't make the party? You can still support by sending a check to: STL Catholic Worker Community 8617 Mora Ln. St. Louis, MO 63147 venmo or cash app us @STLCatholicWorker $STLCatholicWorker In keeping with the Catholic Worker practice advocated by our founders Dorothy Day a...
A Christmas Appeal from The STL Catholic Worker “It is no use to say that we are born two thousand years too late to give room to Christ. Nor will those who live at the end of the world have been born too late. Christ is always with us, always asking for room in our hearts. He said that a glass of water given to a beggar was given to Him. He made heaven hinge on the way we act towards Him in his disguise of commonplace, frail and ordinary human beings. And to those who say, aghast, that they never had a chance to do such a thing, that they lived two thousand years too late, he will say again what they had the chance of knowing all their lives, that if these things were done for the very least of his brethren they were done for Him. They are Christ, asking us to find room for Him exactly as He did at the first Christmas.” - Dorothy Day “They evicted us from that abandoned building,” Brett told me as I handed him a couple burritos. “We didn’t know they were coming. I was away and t...