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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…
