Introduction to the Catholic Worker Movement: Building “a society where it’s easier to be good”

Members of the Simone Weil Catholic Worker in NE Portland will introduce the Catholic Worker movement, focusing on the three key components of the Catholic Worker “program”: houses of hospitality, roundtable discussions for “clarification of thought,” and “agronomic universities.” They will share how their community tries to live into this vision through their two houses of hospitality and their agronomic university and communion economy projects.

Bio: The Simone Weil House was founded in 2019 as a house of hospitality in the Catholic Worker tradition. The Catholic Worker Movement was founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin during the Great Depression. What began as a newspaper grew into a movement of houses of hospitality whose aim is to “live in accordance with the justice and charity of Jesus Christ” through practices of nonviolence, the works of mercy, manual labor, and voluntary poverty.

~Open hearts, open minds, room for all theologies, including yours~

We are meeting in person at the First Presbyterian Church of Astoria. The service will also be live-streamed via Zoom for those who are not comfortable attending in person.  Email the Connections Committee at PuufConnections@gmail.com for Zoom details.  Masks are now optional. If you are not feeling well, please wear a mask, or attend via Zoom.

Religious Education for Children will occur during the regular service.  Contact the RE Director at Puufreligioused@Pacuuf.org for details.

We will have coffee hour after the service in Fellowship Hall.