Our arms are linked - we try to be neighbors of His, and to speak up for His principles. That’s one kind of localism, I guess, and one kind of politics - doing your utmost to keep that chain connected, unbroken. It’s a great ‘chain of being,’ someone once told me, and I think our job is to do the best we can to hold up our small segment of the chain. Our lives are touched by those who lived centuries ago, and we hope that our lives will mean something to people who won’t be alive until centuries from now. We are communities in time and in a place, I know, but we are communities in faith as well - and sometimes time can stop shadowing us. Animately, she responded that they were a matter of “pursuing a community life, a community life which would be loyal to the teaching in the Sermon on the Mount.” Once he recalled, asking her about her politics. Coles enjoyed many conversations with her. Among the many people who knew Dorothy Day, the psychiatrist and author Robert Coles observed that nothing seemed more important than the way she lived her life.
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