<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Catholic Worker <<a href="mailto:catholicworkerlist@gmail.com" class="">catholicworkerlist@gmail.com</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Fwd: Peter Maurin on Cathedrals</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">April 16, 2019 at 5:18:04 PM CDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:National-CW-E-mail-List@googlegroups.com" class="">National-CW-E-mail-List@googlegroups.com</a><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:National-CW-E-mail-List+owners@googlegroups.com" class="">National-CW-E-mail-List+owners@googlegroups.com</a><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br class="">From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Iowa City Catholic Worker</strong> <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:iowacitycatholicworker@gmail.com" class="">iowacitycatholicworker@gmail.com</a>></span><br class="">Date: Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 8:59 AM<br class="">Subject: Peter Maurin on Cathedrals<br class="">To: <<a href="mailto:iowa-city-catholic-worker@googlegroups.com" class="">iowa-city-catholic-worker@googlegroups.com</a>><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><img alt="nd.png" class="" apple-inline="yes" id="31745FBC-1188-40D9-AC2F-8622F36D3F5A" src="cid:ii_jujuayc60"><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/04/15/grieving-fire-notre-dame-during-holy-week?fbclid=IwAR0C2g9MkpYCrPUZ2yRCKNKJT9F_5HgLOy-UVF_Y2FXF_7Ab3e8KVzjt_8I" target="_blank" class="">Grieving the fire at Notre Dame during Holy Week, America Magazine - the Jesuit Review</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dear friends and workers,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Catholic Worker Movement was heavily influenced by the French Catholic philosopher, peasant-scholar-worker, and immigrant to America, Peter Maurin. One of his <a href="http://www.easyessays.org/building-churches/" target="_blank" class="">Easy Essays</a>, written decades ago, captures perfectly the magnitude of what happened yesterday. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We share it with you today hoping you enjoy it and are called to explore more of Peter Maurin's incredible body of work and writings.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We will pray for the Cathedral of Notre Dame during Mass tomorrow morning (Wednesday) at 8:30am at the Catholic Worker House,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Emily, David, and the Catholic Worker team</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 class="m_-8084937993620512876entry-title" style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:3.9rem;font-style:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.2308em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;clear:both;line-height:1.2308">Building Churches</h1><div class="m_-8084937993620512876entry-content" style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:"Noto Serif",serif;font-size:19px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px 82.5312px 82.5312px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.6842em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline" class="">Henry Adams tells us in his<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">autobiography<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">that he could not get an education<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">in America,<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">because education implies<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">unity of thought<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">and there is no unity of<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">thought in America.<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">So he went to England<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">and found that England<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">was too much like America.<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">So he went to France<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">and found that France<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">was too much like England and America.<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">But in France he found the<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Cathedral of Chartres<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">and from the Cathedral of<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Chartres he learned<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">that there was unity of thought<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">in thirteenth-century France.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.6842em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline" class="">People who built the Cathedral<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">of Chartres<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">knew how to combine<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">cult, that is to say liturgy,<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">with culture, that is to say philosophy,<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">and cultivation, that is to say agriculture.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.6842em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline" class="">The Cathedral of Chartres is<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">a real work of art<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">because it is the real expression<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">of the spirit of a united people.<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Churches that are built today<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">do not express the spirit of the people.<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">“When a church is built,”<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">a Catholic editor said to me,<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">“the only thing that has news value is:<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">How much did it cost?”<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">The Cathedral of Chartres was not built<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">to increase the value of real estate.<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">The Cathedral of Chartres was not built<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">with money borrowed from money lenders.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.6842em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline" class="">The Cathedral of Chartres was not built<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">by workers working for wages.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.6842em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline" class="">Maurice Barres used to worry<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">about the preservation of<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">French Cathedrals,<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">but Charles Peguy thought<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">that the faith that builds Cathedrals<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">is after all the thing that matters.<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Moscow had a thousand churches<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">and people lost the faith.<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Churches ought to be built<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">with donated money, donated<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">material, donated labor.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.6842em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline" class="">The motto of St. Benedict was<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Laborare et Orare, Labor and Pray.<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Labor and prayer ought to be combined;<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">labor ought to be a prayer.<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">The liturgy of the Church<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">is the prayer of the Church.<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">People ought to pray with the Church<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">and to work with the Church.<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">The religious life of the people<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">and the economic life of the people<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">ought to be one.<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">I heard that in Germany<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">a group of Benedictines<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">is trying to combine liturgy<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">with sociology.<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">We don’t need to wait for Germany<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">to point the way,<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">Architects, artists and artisans<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">ought to exchange ideas<br style="box-sizing:inherit" class="">on Catholic liturgy and Catholic sociology.</p></div></div></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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