"It is hard to believe in this love. In a book by Hugh of St. Victor which I read once on the way from St. Paul to Chicago, there is a conversation between the soul and God about this love. The soul is petulant and wants to know what kind of a love is that which loves all indiscriminately, the thief and the Samaritan, the wife and the mother and the harlot? The soul complains that it wishes a particular love, a love for herself alone. And God replies fondly that after all, since no two people are alike in this world, He has indeed a particular fondness for each one of us, an exclusive love to satisfy each one alone."
Dorothy Day, To Die for Love, Catholic Worker magazine, September 1948
2 comments:
Beautiful.
Janet
Janet,
I found a website that actually searches Dorothy Day's works and provides quotes to her writings - even from the magazine The Catholic Worker. What a find! If you would like the url , let me know. take care.
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