3 Easy Essays from From Peter Maurin, co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement:

Christianity Untried

Chesterton says:
“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting.
It has been found difficult and left untried.”

Christianity has not been tried because
people thought it was impractical.

And men have tried everything except Christianity.
And everything that men have tried has failed.

God and Mammon

Christ says: “The dollar you have is the dollar you give.”

1. The Banker says: “The dollar you have is the dollar you keep.”
2. Christ says: “You cannot serve two masters, God and Mammon.”
3. “‘You cannot.’ And all our education consists in trying to find out how we can,” says Robert Louis Stevenson.
4. “The poor are the true children of the Church”, says Bossuet.
5. “Modern society has made the bank account the standard of values”, says Charles Peguy.

Share Your Wealth

1. God wants us to be our brother’s keeper.
2. To feed the hungry,
   to clothe the naked,
   to shelter the homeless,
   to instruct the ignorant,
   at a personal sacrifice,
   is what God
   wants us to do.
3. What we give to the poor
   for Christ’s sake