Mother Teresa and Dorothy Day
Reflections on the shared mission of The Catholic Workers and The Missionaries of Charity. Mother Teresa once invited Dorothy Day to speak to her novices on the occasion of Dorothy's visit to Calcutta in 1970. Jerry Daoust wrote in Godspy.com on 27 March 2008. Eileen Eagan, who was traveling with Dorothy, tells of the novices' reaction to Dorothy:
". . . I saw their eyes widen as she recounted the many times she had chosen to go to jail. They understood going to prison for truth and liberation, as Gandhi had done; now they were hearing it in a specifically Christian context, that of the Works of Mercy, of visiting the prisoner by entering prison.
When Dorothy had finished, Mother Teresa took the black cross with the Corpus of Christ, as worn by the Missionaries of Charity on their saris, and pinned it on Dorothy's left shoulder. I know of no other case in which Mother Teresa gave the crucifix of her congregation to a lay person."
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