#peter maurin

[eternal-echoes]

[tonreihe]

This is called “throwing someone in at the deep end.”

[holly-natnicole]

the Bats 'n' Birds in my 'D.C.' (1937) franchise Alternate Multiverse rewrite timeline:

transgender polyamorous homoromantic asexual female Leslie Maurin Thompkins (deadname Samuel Xolani Thompkins) is a(n ethnically mostly white) South African through Mary Thompkins (who has an ethnically black biological father) and Thomas Jameson, her vigilante name (which she uses extremely rarely since Leslie almost never commits vigilantism) being Doctor (often shortened to Doc);

cisgender monogamous panromantic pansexual fem Julia Irene Alice Pennyworth is an Englishwoman through Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth (who is ethnically white) and Irene Rivers (who is ethnically black), her vigilante name (which she extremely rarely uses since there aren’t many situations where Julia would need to wear a mask to protect her identity) being Agent J;

cis aromantic ace male Alfred Thaddeus Crane Pennyworth is an (ethnically white) Englishman through Alice Pennyworth née Crane and Thaddeus Jarvis Pennyworth, his vigilante name (which he somewhat rarely uses since there aren’t many situations where Alfred would need to wear a mask to protect his identity) being Agent A;

trans mono gay homosexual male Cullen Row (deadname Holly Farrell) is a(n ethnically white) Gothamite through Miranda Farrell née Row and Marcus Farrell, his vigilante names (which he somewhat rarely uses since there aren’t many situations where Cullen would need to wear a mask to protect his identity) being Duckie & Mallard;

cis poly omniromantic omnisexual male Bruce Thomas Wayne is a Gothamite who is Jewish through Martha Wayne née Kane and ethnically white through Thomas Wayne, his vigilante name being Batman;

cis mono gay fem Katherine “Kate” Rebecca Kane is a Jewish Gothamite through Gabriela “Gabi” Kane née García and Jacob Kane, her vigilante name being Batwoman;

trans mono gay fem Mary Elizabeth “Bette” Kane (deadname Matthew Gilbert "Bert" Kane) is a(n ethnically white) Englishwoman through Matthew “Matt” Kane née Benett and Jewish through Miriam Kane, her vigilante names being Batgirl & Flamebird;

cis mono biromantic demisexual fem Barbara Joan Gordon is a(n ethnically mostly white) Gothamite through Barbara Eileen Johannes (named Barbara Eileen Gordon during her marriage to Jim) and James “Jim” Gordon (whose bio maternal grandfather was an African American), her vigilante names being Batgirl & Oracle;

cis mono gay demi male David Zavimbe is Congolese through Laura Zavimbe née Davids and Isaac Zavimbe, his vigilante name being Batwing;

trans mono bi demi fem Araunya “Anya” Grayson (deadname Richard “Rick” John Grayson) is Romani & Welsh & French through Marie Grayson née Lloyd (who was born in Wales) and Romani & an (ethnically white) Englishwoman through John Grayson (who was born in England), her vigilante names being Robin & Renegade & Nightwing & Batman;

cis mono demiromantic omni fem Jade “Jay” Todd (also known as Jason “Jay” Todd, Jade “Jay” al Ghūl, & Jade “Jay” Head) is a(n ethnically mostly white) Gothamite through Sheila Haywood and Willis Peters (whose bio paternal grandmother was a Chinese American), her vigilante names being Robin & Red Hood;

cis mono gay ace fem Cassandra Wǔ-Sân (formerly Cassandra Cain, originally nameless) is Chinese through Shiva (at birth named Sandra Wǔ-Sân) and a(n ethnically white) Gothamite through David Cain, her vigilante names being Orphan & Batgirl & Black Bat & Batman (Cassandra Wǔ-Sân is written as 擦涩伞得拉 伍 莘 in Chinese);

cis mono bi fem Harper Row (formerly Harper Farrell) is a(n ethnically white) Gothamite through Miranda Farrell née Row and Marcus Farrell, her vigilante name being Bluebird;

mono bi Stephanie Brown (deadname Charles “Chuck” Brown) is a(n ethnically white) Gothamite through Crystal Brown née Bellinger and Arthur Brown plus she’s a demigal, their vigilante names being Spoiler & Robin & Batgirl;

cis poly bi male Timothy “Tim” Jackson Drake is a(n ethnically white) Gothamite through Janet Drake née Lynn and Jack Drake, his vigilante names being Robin & Raptor;

agender mono bi Duke Thomas is an African American Gothamite through Eileen Thomas (whose bio mother was also a metahuman) and an African through Gnomon (who is also a metahuman), their vigilante names being Signal & Robin;

agender aro ace Damian al Ghūl (deadname Athanasia al Ghūl, used the name Tallant al Ghūl for several months at age 8 when believing ze’s male before at the end of it realising zir lack of any gender, got often called Ībn al Ḫfāfīš [إِبن الخفافيش] & Ūṭwāṭ [وطواط] by other Shadows in the League of Assassins) is Arab, Chinese, & Pakistani through Talia al Ghūl and Jewish & ethnically white through Bruce Thomas Wayne, zir vigilante names being Robin & Heretic & Redbird (Damian al Ghūl is written as داميان ال عهوول in Arabic, 㙮面 腌乐 乌勒 in Chinese, & ڈیمین الغول in Urdu);

cis mono pan fem Helena Alfreda Kyle is Cuban, Nigerian, Italian, and Somali through Selina Kyle (who is a Gothamite, but gave birth to & for 8 years raised her bio daughter in Metropolis) and Jewish and ethnically white through Bruce Thomas Wayne, her vigilante names being Hunter & Robin;

genderfluid mono bi ace Maxine "Max" Gibson is an African American Gothamite through Sarah Gibson née Edwards and Evan Gibson, his vigilante name being Huginn;

cis mono heteroromantic heterosexual fem Dana Tan is a Chinese American Gothamite through Daiyu Tan née Zhìhuì and Paul Tan (originally named Bao Tan), her vigilante name being Muninn (Dana Tan is written as 丹娜 坛 in Chinese);

trans mono het male Terrence “Terry” McGinnis (deadname Winifred McGinnis) is a Gothamite who is a Korean American through Mary Mun (named Mary McGinnis during her marriage to Warren McGinnis) and Jewish & ethnically white through Bruce Thomas Wayne, his vigilante name being Batman (Terrence McGinnis is written as 테렌스 맥기니스 in Korean);

trans mono het fem Caroline “Carrie” Keene Kelley (deadname Jonathan “John” Keene Kelley) is a(n ethnically white) Gothamite through Lynn Keene and Frank Kelley, her vigilante names being Robin & Batwoman;

cis mono gay male Matthew “Mattie” Mun is a Gothamite who is a Korean American through Mary Mun (named Mary McGinnis during her marriage to Warren McGinnis) and Jewish & ethnically white through Bruce Thomas Wayne, his vigilante name being Robin (Matthew Mun is written as 매튜 문 in Korean).

[portraitsofsaints]

Dorothy Day

Servant of God 1897-1980 Co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement

Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert. In the 1930s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker Movement, a pacifist movement that continues to combine direct aid to the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf. Her cause for canonization has been opened by the Catholic Church.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

[moishe-pipick]

The future will be different if we make the present different.

- Peter Maurin

[lonniemachin]

you may be thinking, 'azbats.com, you've just become enthralled by the idea of catholic worker-style christian anarchist jpv because you like anarky' and that's not true. did comics influence my politics. yes. but anarchism's promotion of horizontal organization rather than top-down hierarchies, the prioritization of freedom of the self in relation to the freedom of and care for others, and the added bonus of not taking a reconnection with faith away from him but strengthening it in a way that doesn't cross into zeal that is destructive or promote the view that he and azrael are god's 'smiling sword' would be really good for him. also leslie, who he loves to death and who is actively trying to push him towards community service as an outlet for his need to feel useful, was based off of dorothy day and named after peter maurin. so.

[hoursofreading]

Personalism is a philosophic tendency built on the infinite uniqueness and depth of each person. Over the years people like Walt Whitman, Martin Luther King, William James, Peter Maurin and Wojtyla (who went on to become Pope John Paul II) have called themselves personalists, but the movement is still something of a philosophic nub. It’s not exactly famous. Personalism starts by drawing a line between humans and other animals. Your dog is great, but there is a depth, complexity and superabundance to each human personality that gives each person unique, infinite dignity. Despite what the achievement culture teaches, that dignity does not depend on what you do, how successful you are or whether your school calls you gifted. Infinite worth is inherent in being human. Every human encounter is a meeting of equals. Doing community service isn’t about saving the poor; it’s a meeting of absolute equals as both seek to change and grow.

Opinion | Personalism: The Philosophy We Need (Published 2018)

[apesoformythoughts]

«Ok then Mr. Self-Righteous-Smarty-Pants, what is your solution? I don’t have one in the sense of a “pastoral program” suitable for an ecclesial Ted Talk at the next USCCB meeting. I have no flow charts, spread sheets filled with statistics, or power point photos of smiling kids in a pool waving catechisms in the air while eating saint-shaped gummy bears.

All I know is one thing and that is the need for a christological revolution of the heart within the Church the likes of which we have not seen in a millennium or more. This is what Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin were all about. It was their sole objective. We need a Church where Christ is viewed, once again, as the Head and that his cruciform reality is our sole metric for adjudicating both the Tradition as such as well as the movement of the Holy Spirit in that Tradition and in the here and now. The Holy Spirit bears witness in the Church to Christ and Christ alone. And any so-called movement of the Spirit that engages in an eclipse of that Christ is of the Anti-Christ. And we must not be afraid to name such idolatries for what they are: demonic.»

— Dr. Larry Chapp: “The Weirdness of Christ and the Authenticity of the Church”

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DOROTHY DAY // JOURNALIST

“She was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social and anarchist activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics. In 1917 she was imprisoned as a member of suffragist Alice Paul's nonviolent Silent Sentinels. In the 1930s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker Movement, a pacifist movement that combines direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf. She practiced civil disobedience, which led to additional arrests in 1955, 1957, and in 1973 at the age of seventy-five.”

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New York Catholic Workers bring new growth with rooftop garden 

NEW YORK (RNS) — For decades the Catholic Worker movement has served meals at its two soup kitchens at Maryhouse and St. Joseph House in Manhattan’s East Village, feeding hungry New Yorkers from the thousands of pounds of fresh produce the workers grew at a farm in upstate New York named for the movement’s co-founder, Peter Maurin. Every fall, workers at the 49-acre farm in Marlboro, New York,…

[riverdamien]

December/January Peniel

  DECEMBER, 2023/January, 2024

30th Anniversary Year

Temenos

CATHOLIC WORKER

PENIEL

“Where Jacob Wrestled with

God!”

Journal of An Alien Street Priest:

Shores of A New Year!

As I stand on the shores of the Pacific, and look out into eternity I am reminded that all of us stand of the shores of a New Year. And I think of one who walks with us, St. Damien of Molokai, the Leper Priest!

St. Damien walked the shores of Molokai, remembering those with leprosy that he worked with, the past and present. Remembering his own call to these shores as a young boy.

As St. Damien looks out into the ocean he sees a thunderstorm forming and in his mind he wonders in his tiredness and doubt:

“I left the security of a sure ministry, of being provided for, and have wandered the shores into a ministry of uncertainty, anger, and danger of illness and physical harm” and as the wave roll in, ‘and have cast my heart into the wounded skies.”

Damien was a man of the morning fog, and of the late night blackness, a wake with ones’ in pain. Damien was the man who celebrates the Sacraments for all, seeing all as children of God. Damien was the man, who becomes afflicted with leprosy and in his suffering bears witness to his fellow brothers and sisters of how to die, with his hope in the resurrection.

Day in, day out, every time I walk outside my door, I see the “leper’s” of our society; people walk by as if they do not exist; I saw one well dressed drunk urinating on a sleeping homeless person; Sophia is 40 years old dying from cancer in a corner of an ally in dirty blankets; Sean gave up trying to get in a program of housing-there were five hundred ahead of him, many had been waiting for months. These are the “lepers” our society. Our mission is to walk with each one day after day, to listen, to provide comfort, and simply be present. We feed them, give them socks, provide rooms in a SRO when they are in need, visit them in jail, visit in the hospital, provide the Sacraments, and pastoral counseling. It is one by one, each day!

As we enter the coming year join me in the “morning fog”, and “the late night blackness” following the example of St. Damien, and of Jesus and in doing so “Our arms will become the love of God around our brothers and sisters” (Dorothy Day). Deo Gratias! Thanks be to God!

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In these four photos one can see the faces of our people and of my co-worker and me, two who live and survive on the street; the commandment of Jesus: “Do unto others as you would have done it unto me,” is a great equalizer, for it calls us to provide for others as we would like it “done unto us.” We meet others where they are without judgment, and questioning. Temenos Catholic Worker in your name meets Jerry, Sam, Paul and Susan listening, feeding, and most of all caring for them. We are not numbers, but their friend! So journey with me and our four friends, and many others on the streets, “The street transforms every ordinary day into a series of quick questions and every incorrect answer is a beat down, shooting or pregnancy. (Ta-Nehis:Contes).

We invite you to join us on the street this coming year.

We need food, socks, money for hotel rooms for the ill to recover, meds, and a variety of other needs, including administrative expenses. Our total budget is $325.000. which  seems cheap compared to other non-profits. So join us in our Sacramental ministry of presence. Join us in caring for those who have very little access to regular services. Join us in being Christ! Peter Maurin, co-founder of the Catholic Word said:

“The Sermon on the Mount will be called practical when Christians make up their mindsl to practice it.”

I invite all of us to practice  the Sermon on the Mount this Christmas and New Year!

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Temenos Catholic Worker

Fr.  River Damien Sims,sfw, D.Min., D.S.T.

P.O. Box 642656

San Francisco, CA 94164

www.temenos.org

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Copies of 2024 Budget and Tax Receipts for 2083 Aailable on Request).

----------------------------------------------------------My faith is held together by wonder—by every defiant commitment to presence and paying attention.

—Cole Arthur Riley, This Here Flesh

[catholicpunker]

https://www.paulsofranko.net/2023/11/07/peter-maurin-and-catholicpunking/

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[theblithespirit]

Peter Maurin/The Irish and the Catholic Worker

My friend James Murphy asks me to spread the word. Provocative announcement! Calling on the Irish to do what??? https://www.motherofgodchicago.org/events/march-16-calling-on-the-irish-to-save-civilization-again If you’re in the ‘hood, drop on by.

[portraitsofsaints]

Dorothy Day Servant of God 1897-1980 Co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement

Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert. In the 1930s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker Movement, a pacifist movement that continues to combine direct aid to the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf. Her cause for canonization has been opened by the Catholic Church. {website}

[moishe-pipick]

"If we are crazy, then it is because we refuse to be crazy in the same way that the world has gone crazy."

— Peter Maurin