Dorothy Day & Emmaus

Last updated on: March 30, 2016 at 7:28 pm by Kathryn Jean Lopez

Dorothy Day & Emmaus 2016-03-30T19:28:57-05:00 Kathryn Jean Lopez

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Thanks to Fr. Jeremy Zipple at America for mentioning it is a must-read reflection for the day, which I find here via a Notre Dame website:

Our Lord left himself to us as food: bread and wine. The disciples at Emmaus knew him in the breaking of bread and so it’s far easier to see Christ in your brother when you are sitting down and sharing soup with him. You don’t any longer see the destitute, or the drunk, or the disorderly, or the unworthy poor. (Christopher Closeup, 1971)

Furthermore, “[w]hen you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them. God sees Christ in His Son, in us and loves us. And so we should see Christ in others, and nothing else, and love them” (Day, Pilgrimage 124). She considered all her life as a meeting with Christ. “In performing the works of mercy […] she met Christ in human guise. In the Eucharist […] she met Christ disguised in word and human symbol [and] received him sacramentally, and was intimately transformed by him (Merriman 98). Her imagination, so radically reoriented and shaped by the Eucharistic sacrifice, allowed her to see in the daily life of the homeless the laborious and lonely journey to Calvary: “Here starts their long weary trek to as to Calvary. They meet no Veronica on their way to relieve their tiredness nor is there a Simon of Cyrene to relieve the burden of the cross (Day, Loaves 37).

Bonus on this website is the student quotes the wonderful Wellspring of Worship, too. She gets Dorothy Day was so Eucharistic in her focus.

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