All Must Be Fulfilled
- DOROTHY DAY
On the one hand, there is the sadness of the world—and on the other hand, when I went to church today the place was flooded with sunshine, and it was a clear, cold day outside.
Suddenly my heart was so flooded with joy and thankfulness and so overwhelmed at the beauty and the glory and the majesty of our God that I could only think of Saint Dionysius, Concerning the Godhead: "It is the cause and origin and being and life of all creation. And it is to them that fall away from it a voice that [does] recall them and a power by which they rise; and to them that have stumbled into a corruption of the divine image within them, it is a power of renewal and reform; and a sacred grounding to them that feel the shock of the unholy assault, and a security to them which stand; an upward guidance to them that are being drawn unto it, and a principle of illumination to them that are being enlightened; a principle of perfection to them that are being perfected; a principle of deity to them that are being deified; and of simplicity to them that are being brought into simplicity; and of unity to them that are being brought into unity."
The immanence of God in all things! In him we live and move and have our being (Acts 17:28). He is not far from every one of us (Acts 17:27).
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Acknowledgement
Servant of God Dorothy Day. "All Must Be Fulfilled," excerpt from On Pilgrimage. William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. (1999).
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The Author
Servant of God Dorothy Day († 1980) was a convert to Catholicism and the co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement. She is the author of The Reckless Way of Love: Notes on Following Jesus, The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness, From Union Square to Rome, All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day, Loaves and Fishes, On Pilgrimage, and Wisdom from Dorothy Day: A Radical Love.
