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The Catholic Worker Movement
The Catholic Worker Movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is grounded on the firm belief in the God
- given dignity of every human person.
Today over 185 Catholic Worker communities remain committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer and hospitality
for the exiled, homeless, hungry and forsaken. Catholic Workers continue to protest injustice, war, racism and violence of
all forms.
The aim of the Catholic Worker movement is to live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ. Our sources
are the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures as handed down in the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, with our inspiration coming
from the lives of the saints, "men and women outstanding in holiness, living witness to His unchanging love." This aim requires
us to begin living in a different way. We recall the words of our founders, Dorothy Day who said, "God meant things to be
much easier than we have them:, and Peter Maurin who wanted to build a society, "where it is easier for people to be good."
Our Mission
To serve the poor in the city of Akron; to offer hospitality, including shelter, food, emotional and spiritual support,
to familys and individuals in need to enable them to become self - sufficient.
Matthew 25:31- 46 The Sheep and the Goats
Mathew 25:35; For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I
was a stranger and you invited me in. Verse 36; I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after
me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.
Matthew 25:40; "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for the least of these brothers of
mine, you did for me.
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