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SUMMARY:Easter Weekday
DESCRIPTION:WE SCARCELY KNOW OURSELVES\nFrom the writings of Servant of God Dorothy Day 3\n◊◊◊\nMuch as we want to\, we do not really know ourselves. Do we really want\nto see ourselves as God sees us\, or even as our fellow human beings see us?\nCould we bear it\, weak as we are?… We do not want to be given that clear inward\nvision which discloses to us our most secret faults. In the Psalms there is that\nprayer “Deliver me from my secret sins.”… They were what I read most when I\nwas in jail… I read with a sense of coming back to something that I had lost.\nThere was an echoing in my heart. And how can anyone who has known human\nsorrow and human joy fail to respond to these words? \nOut of the depths I have cried to thee\, O Lord: Lord\, hear my voice. Let thy \nears be attentive to the voice of my supplication. If thou\, O Lord\, wilt mark \niniquities: Lord who shall stand it. For with thee there is merciful forgiveness… \nAll through those weary first days in jail when I was in solitary\nconfinement\, the only thoughts that brought comfort to my soul were those lines\nin the Psalms that expressed the terror and misery of man suddenly stricken and\nabandoned. Solitude and hunger and weariness of spirit – these sharpened my\nperceptions so that I suffered not only my own sorrow but the sorrows of those\nabout me. I was no longer myself. I was mankind… The sorrows of the world\nencompassed me. I was like one gone down into the pit. Hope had forsaken me…\nAnd yet if it were not the Holy Spirit that comforted me\, how could I have been\ncomforted\, how could I have endured\, how could I have lived in hope?… \n“What glorious hope!” Mauriac writes. “There are all those who will\ndiscover that their neighbor is Jesus himself\, although they belong to the mass of\nthose who do not know Christ or who have forgotten Him… Even some of those\nwho think they hate Him have consecrated their lives to Him; for Jesus is\ndisguised and masked in the midst of men\, hidden among the poor\, among the\nsick\, among prisoners\, among strangers. Many who serve Him officially have\nnever known who He was\, and many who do not even know His name will hear\non the last day the words that open to them the gates of joy. ‘Those children\nwere I\, and I those working men. I wept on the hospital bed. I was that murderer\nin his cell whom you consoled.’” \nBut always the glimpses of God came most when I was alone. Objectors\ncannot say that it was fear of loneliness and solitude and pain that made me turn\nto Him. It was in those few years when I was alone and most happy that I found\nHim. I found Him at last through joy and thanksgiving\, not through sorrow. Yet\nhow can I say that either? Better let it be said that I found Him through His poor\,\nand in a moment of joy I turned to Him… If Christ established His Church on\nearth with Peter as its rock\, that faulty one who denied Him three times\, who fled\nfrom Him when he was in trouble\, then I\, too\, wanted a share in that tender\ncompassionate love that is so great… \nThe experiences that I have had are more or less universal. Suffering\,\nsadness\, repentance\, love\, we all have known these. They are easiest to bear\nwhen one remembers their universality\, when we remember that we are all\nmembers or potential members of the Mystical Body of Christ. A conversion is a\nlonely experience. We do not know what is going on in the depths of the heart\nand soul of another. We scarcely know ourselves. \n3 Day\, Dorothy. By Little and By Little – The Selected Writings of Dorothy Day. Ed.\nRobert Ellsberg. New York: Alfred A. Knopf\, 1983. 4-7\, 9.
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