Thursday, October 20, 2022

EASY ESSAY BY PETER MAURIN FROM CATHOLIC WORKER PAPER MAY 2022

 

EASY ESSAY

BY PETER MAURIN


Peter Maurin was a French Catholic social activist, theologian, and De La Salle Brother who founded the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933 with Dorothy Day. Maurin expressed his philosophy through short pieces of verse that became known as Easy Essays. 

The Personalist Communitarian

 A personalist is a go giver, not a go getter.

He tries to give what he has, and does not try to get what the other fellow has.

He tries to be good by doing good to the other fellow.

He is altro-centered, not self-centered. 

He has a social doctrine of the common good through words and deeds.

He speaks through deeds as well as words, for he knows that deeds speak louder than words.  Through words and deeds he brings into existence a common unity, the common unity of a community

 

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