April 6

UNITY is a house of prayer

Them I will bring to my holy mountain and make joyful in my house of prayer; their holocausts and sacrifices will be acceptable on my altar, for my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.  ~ Isaiah 56:7

Dorothy Day died in New York City in 1980.  The New York Times called her the most influential person in the history of American Catholicism.  There’s now a movement to canonize her for her personal life of poverty and for her work among the poor.
In her book, From Union Square to Rome, Day wrote that before her conversion to Catholicism she used to go to early morning Mass at St. Joseph’s Church on Sixth Avenue.  What attracted her were the people kneeling in prayer.  She says, “I longed for their faith.  So I used to go in and kneel in the back pew.”  She was drawn to St. Joseph’s because it was clear it was a “house of prayer.”  ~ Mark Link, S.J.

Would a visitor to our parish church witness the same devotion and faith as Day witnessed at St. Joseph’s?  Does our council help make our parish a place of welcome for all?  What would a newcomer say about our parish?

In prayer we should unite ourselves to the community.~ The Talmud

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