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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!
by Ade Bethune
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 – 7 am Office of Readings & Morning Prayer (at St. Francis of Assisi Church)
Tuesdays – 8 am Morning Prayer
Wednesdays – 5:30 pm Vespers (at St. Francis of Assisi Church)
Sundays in Lent (March 9 -April 13) – 7pm Sung Compline (night prayer) at St. Francis of Assisi Church – Tea, cookies, and fellowship to follow at St. Martin de Porres.
This is the first article posted on the St. Martin de Porres Website. The hope is to have many voices represented and contributing to these posts to communicate the work that is being done by the community. These updates will hopefully also explain why such actions are being done. The Gospels should be what is…