Dorothy Day, Saint of the Gutter Beautiful, lived for nearly 50 years in various Catholic Worker Houses of Hospitality: and many times, in addition to peeling potatoes, protesting war and any number of injustices. Through it all, her most frequent companion was a copy of a "Breviary" -- a prayer book most often used by monastics...
She was not, though, a crazed Catholic conservative in which the imitation of the priesthood was thought to be the "mark" of holiness. Rather, her life experiences compelled a daily centering, through the darkness of faith, a surrender to love and the oftentimes seemingly distant possibility of a Divine Presence...
War in the headlines should elicit a similar response in our lives... how else can we truly live, hope, and even survive as human beings?