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Gratitude for our Dorothy Day Room
Last week, with the generous help of the Notre Dame Club of Harrisburg, we renovated one of the rooms in the Catholic Worker house. This room will be named the Dorothy Day room and be themed accordingly. After a ceiling light was installed, spackling was done on the walls, dirt and dust removed, and a
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Circles
There is a distinct lesson from my Humanities class during my senior year of high school. Our teacher gave us a piece of paper with a few concentric circles drawn on it (circles within circles as shown below). We were instructed to write the names of the people closest to us in the innermost circle.
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On Love
“Where there is no love, put love and you will take out love.” St. John of the Cross Love is difficult to write about because it has already been written about so much. It is especially difficult to write about in English because it encompasses so many different meanings. That’s why the Greeks had multiple
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Up the Mountain
Dorothy Day claimed Sermon on the Mount (Matt 5-7) as the manifesto for the Catholic Worker Movement. The beginning of chapter 5 begins, “Seeing the crowds, Jesus went up the mountain.” Throughout the Gospels we are told that Jesus kept going up the Mountain to pray. One of my favorite occurrences is after he feeds
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Good Friday
Pax Christi of Harrisburg hosted their annual Good Friday walk throughout downtown Harrisburg. Before the walk, the media interviewed Pax Christi member, and Catholic Worker board member, Rick Woodard. Rick put forth three ways we can follow the way of Jesus: My freshman year English teacher in high school took off 5% on each essay
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Seeds of Faith
The word radical has a negative connotation. However, the word ‘radical’ comes from the Latin word meaning “rooted”. For example, the vegetable Radish comes from the same word. Therefore, the word radical truly means to be rooted, almost to the point of stubborness, in something or someone. The seed of a tree is planted into
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Striving for Peter’s Vision
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
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!
