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Our rule is the works of mercy… It is the way of sacrifice, worship, a sense of reverence.

— Dorothy Day The Encyclopedia of American Catholic History (1997)

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As quoted in The Catholic Worker after Dorothy : Practicing the Works of Mercy in a New Generation (2008) by Dan McKanan

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[Practicing] the works of mercy … is our program, our rule of life.

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