[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Peter Maurin on Cathedrals

[C G Estabrook]

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> Subject: Fwd: Peter Maurin on Cathedrals
> Date: April 16, 2019 at 5:18:04 PM CDT
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> From: Iowa City Catholic Worker <iowacitycatholicworker at gmail.com <mailto:iowacitycatholicworker at gmail.com>>
> Date: Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 8:59 AM
> Subject: Peter Maurin on Cathedrals
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> Grieving the fire at Notre Dame during Holy Week, America Magazine - the Jesuit Review <https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/04/15/grieving-fire-notre-dame-during-holy-week?fbclid=IwAR0C2g9MkpYCrPUZ2yRCKNKJT9F_5HgLOy-UVF_Y2FXF_7Ab3e8KVzjt_8I>
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> Dear friends and workers,
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> The Catholic Worker Movement was heavily influenced by the French Catholic philosopher, peasant-scholar-worker, and immigrant to America, Peter Maurin. One of his Easy Essays <http://www.easyessays.org/building-churches/>, written decades ago, captures perfectly the magnitude of what happened yesterday. 
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> 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.
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> We will pray for the Cathedral of Notre Dame during Mass tomorrow morning (Wednesday) at 8:30am at the Catholic Worker House,
> 
> Emily, David, and the Catholic Worker team
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> Building Churches
> 
> Henry Adams tells us in his
> autobiography
> that he could not get an education
> in America,
> because education implies
> unity of thought
> and there is no unity of
> thought in America.
> So he went to England
> and found that England
> was too much like America.
> So he went to France
> and found that France
> was too much like England and America.
> But in France he found the
> Cathedral of Chartres
> and from the Cathedral of
> Chartres he learned
> that there was unity of thought
> in thirteenth-century France.
> 
> People who built the Cathedral
> of Chartres
> knew how to combine
> cult, that is to say liturgy,
> with culture, that is to say philosophy,
> and cultivation, that is to say agriculture.
> 
> The Cathedral of Chartres is
> a real work of art
> because it is the real expression
> of the spirit of a united people.
> Churches that are built today
> do not express the spirit of the people.
> “When a church is built,”
> a Catholic editor said to me,
> “the only thing that has news value is:
> How much did it cost?”
> The Cathedral of Chartres was not built
> to increase the value of real estate.
> The Cathedral of Chartres was not built
> with money borrowed from money lenders.
> 
> The Cathedral of Chartres was not built
> by workers working for wages.
> 
> Maurice Barres used to worry
> about the preservation of
> French Cathedrals,
> but Charles Peguy thought
> that the faith that builds Cathedrals
> is after all the thing that matters.
> Moscow had a thousand churches
> and people lost the faith.
> Churches ought to be built
> with donated money, donated
> material, donated labor.
> 
> The motto of St. Benedict was
> Laborare et Orare, Labor and Pray.
> Labor and prayer ought to be combined;
> labor ought to be a prayer.
> The liturgy of the Church
> is the prayer of the Church.
> People ought to pray with the Church
> and to work with the Church.
> The religious life of the people
> and the economic life of the people
> ought to be one.
> I heard that in Germany
> a group of Benedictines
> is trying to combine liturgy
> with sociology.
> We don’t need to wait for Germany
> to point the way,
> Architects, artists and artisans
> ought to exchange ideas
> on Catholic liturgy and Catholic sociology.
> 
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