Contemplative Haven

I am reading, “By Little and By Little.  The Selected Writings of Dorothy Day”, and just wanted to share a passage about Peter Maurin that brought tears to my eyes:
Peter had been insulted and misunderstood in his life as well as loved.  He had been taken for a plumber and left to sit in the basement [...]

From St. Faustina’s Diary, Divine Mercy in My Soul:
532     After Holy Communion, I saw the Lord Jesus, who said these words to me:  Today, penetrate into the spirit of My poverty and arrange everything in such a way that the most destitute will have no reason to envy you.  I find pleasure, not in large [...]

A friend, who returns home time and time again exhausted in spirit and body from her work in the soup kitchen, writes:  “I’m happy.  In a very sad kind of way.  I am happy with the poor-exhausted.  It makes no sense.  Like all of His paradoxes, it only makes love, not sense.”
Who are they who [...]

 I am reminded once again, by prayer requests in my inbox, of the incredibly difficult and often painful lives of our elderly; also, of the enormous amount of strength and dedication required of their caregivers.
And once again, I am profoundly moved by the powerful life, spirituality and writing of Servant of God Catherine Doherty, who, in her [...]

My train of thought re detachment has been interrupted once again.  This time, by something I just read.  When asked, “What is poverty?”,  here were the responses of some Grade 4 and 5 children from North Bay, Ontario.  Poverty is:

feeling ashamed when my Dad can’t get a job
pretending that you forgot your lunch
being teased for [...]