Last night Big T and I prepared and served the evening meal at Shalom House in Kansas City.
Shalom House offers hospitality to homeless men willing to live in a peaceful community. It is based on the tradition of the Catholic Worker Movement founded in part by Dorothy Day during the depression.
Dorothy Day dedicated her life to helping the less fortunate. It kind of makes our one little lenten meal seem like it is not nearly enough....but then...she did proclaim: "People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has the right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do."
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