Board Of Directors & Advisors

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vision & Mission

In the spirit of Dorothy Day’s Catholic Worker Movement, we seek solidarity with the most vulnerable through living voluntary poverty, educating ourselves and others in Catholic Social Teaching, and living simply in respect of God’s creation.  Dorothy Day’s House of Hospitality on Staten Island would serve the needs of the local community allowing others to engage in both the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.  Through a focus on Catholic Social Teaching, we hope to educate Catholics as well as those from other faith traditions to enliven the local church in the spirit of faith, love, and service.

values & Guiding principles

• Intentional Community – Forming a community strengthened by our Catholic faith and centered on the Eucharist, we seek to live the charism of hospitality and service to the poor with the motto, “We can do in community what we cannot do alone.” 

• Voluntary poverty – Choosing simplicity and a life of voluntary poverty allows us to live in solidarity with the poor and helps to eradicate the materialism ad consumeristic mindset that often hinders our ability to serve those most in need which, along with Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin’s motto, we believe will “be making it easier for people to be good.”

• Personal Responsibility – A house of hospitality and life of service to the poorest of the poor involves subsidiarity in which we make a difference where we are for those closest to us, often through manual labor and a practical awareness of the basic needs of communal life and those we serve in the spirit of, “if you see something needs to be done, do it.”

• Human Dignity – Respecting the life and dignity of each human person, we strive to be “go-givers, not go-getters” by living out the corporal and spiritual works of mercy to lower ourselves in order to raise up others to equal dignity, which we hope will fulfill Peter Maurin’s motto, “The scholars must become workers so the workers may be scholars.”

• Peace – The heart of the Gospel is the peace that Christ longs to give to the world.  Fostering peace and non-violence in our world along with prayer and intercession for our families and community gives impetus to our work, prayer and life.

• Care of Creation – Appreciating nature and the beauty around us requires an individual and communal commitment to preserving the gifts God has given us through environmental awareness and the practice of basic means of sustainability which Dorothy and Peter refer to as the “green revolution of getting back to the earth” which is the heart of the mission to eliminate unemployment and poverty.