When 'On Pilgrimage' was first published in 1948, Dorothy Day was not only the head of the Catholic Worker movement. She was also a mother, a grandmother, a reformer, a pacifist, a public speaker, a voracious reader, a gifted writer and a passionate believer. In this book, actually a diary she kept during 1948, she wrote about all of these facets of her life. But whether describing her visits to her daughters farm or the writings of the saints, she was always exploring the same thing, namely, the many gifts of God's love and how we should respond to them.
