3. Anderson Cooper, “Stephen Colbert: Grateful for Grief,” All There Is, Sept. 21, 2022, 3:00, https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/all-there-is-with-anderson-cooper /episodes/ae2f9ebb-1bc6-4d47-b0f0-af17008dcd0c.
4. Day, Long Loneliness, epigraph.
5. Day, Long Loneliness, 10.
6. Day, Long Loneliness, 107.
7. Day, Long Loneliness, 25.
8. Day, Long Loneliness, 80.
9. Day, Long Loneliness, 81.
10. Day, Long Loneliness, 38.
11. Day, Long Loneliness, 44.
12. Roberts, Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker, 47.
13. Day, Long Loneliness, 150.
14. Day, Long Loneliness, 137.
15. Day, Long Loneliness, 148.
16. Day, Duty of Delight, 519.
17. Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary, 61–73.
18. O’Malley, “Why Americans Struggle to Understand Catholicism.”
19. Day, Long Loneliness, 171.
20. Day, Long Loneliness, 214.
21. Brooks, Road to Character, 90.
22. As told by Bishop Robert Barron in The Strangest Way, 152.
23. Werntz, “Making Little of the Law and Everything of Love.”
24. Mayfield, Unruly Saint, 130.
25. Day, Long Loneliness, 256.
26. Day, Long Loneliness, 199.
27. Day, Long Loneliness, 200.
28. See Bennett, Practices of Love.
Part 3
Beauty
THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE
Only wonder comprehends anything. . . . Wonder makes us fall to our knees.
—attributed to Gregory of Nyssa
One thing have I asked of the LORD,
that will I seek after:
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD
and to inquire in his temple.
—Psalm 27:4
Perseverance—yes, more and more one sees that it is the great thing. But there is a thing that must not be overlooked. Perseverance is not hanging on to some course which we have set our minds to, and refusing to let go. It is not even a matter of getting a bulldog grip on the faith and not letting the devil pry us loose from it—though many of the saints made it look that way. Really, there is something lacking in such a hope as that. Hope is a greater scandal than we think. I am coming to think that God . . . loves and helps best those who are so beat and have so much nothing when they come to die that it is almost as if they had persevered in nothing but had gradually lost everything, piece by piece, until there was nothing left but God. Hence perseverance is not hanging on but letting go. That of course is terrible.
