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Our family saw the showing of a documentary on Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy Day the other night at St. Augustine’s Church in Cleveland. \u00a0 Before it started, someone passed out copies of the magazine: \u00a0 Alternatives for Simple Living<\/strong>. \u00a0 The December issue is titled: Whose Birthday Is It, Anyway?<\/em> \u00a0 One of the articles was titled: What Jesus Wants for Christmas<\/em>. \u00a0 It starts: \u00a0 “When we celebrate a birthday, we are careful to give what the person really wants or needs. \u00a0 Is there any doubt what Jesus wants from us? \u00a0 He insists that in order to give to Him, we must find Him in the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the sick and the imprisoned. \u00a0 By helping to provide a goat for a farmer in Honduras, a decent home for a family in rural Mississippi, or food for those who are victims of war, you can give Jesus a birthday gift he really wants…” \u00a0 As mentioned in an early blog entry, for Christmas this year we have decided to “give” our children the opportunity to help those less fortunate. \u00a0 Our Joseph, 10, has just spent a week restoring a used bicycle for a child in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. \u00a0 Shaker Cycle in Cleveland is collecting used and new bicycles to send to a school of 1,100 students in Haiti, many of whom have to walk many miles to get to school every day. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 The Dorothy Day Documentary, Don’t Call Me A Saint<\/em>, featured the life of a woman who adopted voluntary poverty in solidarity with the poor and worked exhaustively to help them at every turn. During one of our campaign tours, I told the Havre News<\/em>, in Havre, Montana, that it is spiritually essential we all help the poor (both here and abroad) more, and this starts — for many — \u00a0with lifestyle cuts to free up more money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our family saw the showing of a documentary on Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy Day the other night at St. Augustine’s Church in Cleveland. \u00a0 Before it started, someone passed out copies of the magazine: \u00a0 Alternatives for Simple Living. \u00a0 …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}