David Mills on Dorothy Day and the Mass.

"'I awoke too late for Mass and that spoiled my day,' she wrote in her diaries one day early in her Catholic life. Many years later she wrote, 'The weight of the world is on me when I awake, and until I get to Mass.' A lot of people think of Dorothy Day as a political figure, the radical who founded the Catholic Worker movement, and maybe as someone who lived her life in service to the poor.

"She saw herself as first a faithful Catholic enfolded by the Church and fed by her sacraments. That comes through very strongly in her diaries. Published as The Duty of Delight, the diaries cover her life from 1934 - she'd entered the Church in 1927 - to a few days before her death on November 29, 1980.

"I think the book.s at least a minor classic. It helps explain why her cause for canonization proceeds. . . ."

In a recent commentary, writer David Mills reflected on the importance of the Mass in Dorothy Day's life, including how the Mass transformed the way she saw the things of our world.

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