Martin Luther King Jr. received a calling to fight for justice after experiencing God in a moment of prayer at midnight. The story comes from a biography of King by David Garrow, who won a Pulitzer Prize for the book. The document also discusses a prayer by Dorothy Day about finding satisfaction outside of material possessions, and a poem by Daniel Berrigan about a priest who was too cerebral and disconnected from people's lives. It provides images and analysis of religious works of art.
Martin Luther King Jr. received a calling to fight for justice after experiencing God in a moment of prayer at midnight. The story comes from a biography of King by David Garrow, who won a Pulitzer Prize for the book. The document also discusses a prayer by Dorothy Day about finding satisfaction outside of material possessions, and a poem by Daniel Berrigan about a priest who was too cerebral and disconnected from people's lives. It provides images and analysis of religious works of art.
Martin Luther King Jr. received a calling to fight for justice after experiencing God in a moment of prayer at midnight. The story comes from a biography of King by David Garrow, who won a Pulitzer Prize for the book. The document also discusses a prayer by Dorothy Day about finding satisfaction outside of material possessions, and a poem by Daniel Berrigan about a priest who was too cerebral and disconnected from people's lives. It provides images and analysis of religious works of art.
from Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference tells the story of Martin Luther King, Jr. receiving his “vocation” to fight for justice for his people.
David Garrow is an American
historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for this book. “A Woman’s Prayer” is a selection from Dorothy Day’s autobiography From Union Square to Rome, which illustrates that ordinary people can achieve contemplative prayer and that material possessions don’t bring satisfaction.
Dorothy Day was an atheist
who converted to the Catholicism. She co- founded the Catholic Worker Movement. The poem “His Cleric’s Eye” is a meditation and prayer about a priest who was too cerebral and not involved in people’s lives.
Daniel Berrigan, S.J. is a
writer and anti-war activist. The Agony in the Garden – Giovanni Bellini
Seeing with the Artist
La Orana Maria (Ave Maria) – Paul Gauguin
Seeing with the Artist
The Visitation – Tintoretto
Seeing with the Artist
St. Jerome in the Wilderness – Lorenzo Sabatini
Seeing with the Artist
St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata – Giotto
Seeing with the Artist
The Ecstasy of St. Teresa – Bernini
Seeing with the Artist
The Pharisee and the Publican – John Everett Millais
Seeing with the Artist
The End of the Affair Into Great Silence (1955)—Directed by (2005)—Directed by Edward Dmytryk Philip Groning