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Hoping in the Midst of Uncertainty
Our FOURTH issue of The Personalist is printed and will be in your mailboxes after Easter! Below is a beautiful reflection from Rev. Robenson Siquette, a Jesuit priest, who came to visit the Harrisburg Haitian community in February. He wrote a reflection about his time here in Harrisburg in English and Haitian Creole. Read this
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Bokashi: Food Scraps to Soil in Weeks
By James Murphy The Notre Dame Alumni Club of Harrisburg has helped the Catholic Worker buy soil for our garden beds the past two years. Good soil is not cheap, and because we built taller garden beds this year to discourage groundhogs, we need more soil to fill the beds. Crops deplete nutrients from the
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A Catholic Worker “Job Description”
By Hunter Messner Experience desired: – Fluency in English, Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole with the ability to teach. – Teaching experience with middle schoolers – Experience with urban farming – Skills with home improvement and repair – Extensive experience in commercial and residential kitchens and food service. – Familiarity with immigration law and legal
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Why We Write
“For the sake of new readers, for the sake of men on our breadlines, for the sake of the employed and unemployed, the organized and unorganized workers, and also for the sake of ourselves, we must reiterate again and again what are our aims and purposes. Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and
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The Green Revolution
We are now living in a real Dark Age, and one of the reasons why the modern age is so dark, is because too few Irish have the light. — Peter Maurin, “Irish Culture”
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Gratitude
All is grace. This famous line from the novel The Diary of a Country Priest feels like it sums up the past two days (if not the past two weeks or months) here at St. Martin de Porres House. The past two days, as I pull myself out of bed (after the bell rings, I’ll
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Makers of Peace
On Monday, October 7, we held a prayer vigil for Peace in Gaza, on the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, which Pope Francis called for a day of fasting and prayer for peace. Our friends at the Rechabite Catholic Worker in Lancaster joined us from afar at 6 pm. Several members of Pax
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“And that love comes with community”: Summer 2024
I’ve been meaning to write a first post here on our website to introduce myself. Of course, time has been marching (often sprinting) along this summer, and I both can’t believe how much the time has flown since I arrived here at St. Martin de Porres House on May 24 and how much has happened
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Wood Floors
Sometime during my first winter in Harrisburg, I was asked an unbelievably special question by Kirk Hallett, that man who invited me to come here to be a Catholic Worker in Harrisburg. At the time Kirk was battling acute myeloid leukemia. Kirk asked Mike (a dear friend who enjoys spending time in his woodshop) and
building a new society in the shell of the old
Welcome to St. Martin de Porres House
Welcome to the St. Martin de Porres House website! The house has been a part of the Allison Hill neighborhood since 1996. See updates from the community below, and learn about upcoming events.
Watch a Press Conference the House held for our friend in ICE detention. #FREEOMAR
Browse our above menu to learn about upcoming Roundtable Discussions, see current house needs, and learn more about how to get involved. Click on the poster below or visit the Roundtable page to learn more about our upcoming roundtable discussions. We’re so excited to welcome Martha and Mark to Harrisburg next week!
Don’t be a stranger – come visit us in Allison Hill!
And see below for upcoming prayer & farm volunteer opportunities, and come visit us for house hospitality on Wednesdays from 11 am to 2pm!
Peter Maurin’s Three Cs
The Irish Scholars established
agricultural centers
all over Europe
where they combined
cult–
that is to say liturgy
with culture–
that is to say literature,
with cultivation–
that is to say agriculture.– Peter Maurin
The program of the Catholic Worker is based on “Three C’s” of Peter Maurin’s program to “reconstruct the social order”—cult (prayer), culture (literature and clarification of thought), and cultivation (creating a more decentralized and person-based economy that integrates the agrarian and urban).
We try to practice all of Peter Maurin’s three C’s here at St. Martin de Porres—come join!
Cult
Prayer is the basis of our community life. The Liturgy of the Hours, the millennia-old prayer of the Church is the bedrock of our communal prayer life.
Mondays – 8 am Morning Prayer
7 pm – Bible Study and 8 pm Compline (Night Prayer)
Tuesdays – 8 am Morning Prayer
Wednesdays – 8 am Morning Prayer
Sundays in Lent – 7 pm Sung Compline – Tea, cookies, and fellowship to follow at St. Martin de Porres.
Culture
Come join us for a monthly Roundtable Discussion!
