"Our rule is the works of mercy… It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence."
— Dorothy Day

January 1, 1970

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Variant: [Practicing] the works of mercy … is our program, our rule of life. — As quoted in The Catholic Worker after Dorothy : Practicing the Works of Mercy in a New Generation (2008) by Dan McKanan