02/01/2024
Dear Day House community,
We are writing to share the bittersweet news that, as of December 2023, Day House has officially closed. Since 1976, Day House has offered hospitality in the Catholic Worker tradition. In recent years, though, worker interest, community capacity, and financial resources have dwindled such that we have struggled to keep the house running, let alone running well. Over the last few months, the community has discerned that it is time to close our house of hospitality. We have decided to give the house itself to another socially minded Detroit-based housing cooperative. We are working with them to make that transition in the time it takes to do so well and will invite them to write their own introduction in the future.
As the house transitions in the coming months, we will be continuing to find ways to celebrate and commemorate the incredible work and community that have grown through and around Day House. For the time being, our Sunday evening mass will continue to be held in the living room of 2640 Trumbull at 5:15pm every Sunday, led by Father Tom. We are also grateful that Detroit’s Catholic Worker presence will continue on with Manna Meal Soup Kitchen, which serves meals 5 days/week from the basement of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church.
If you would like to be on our email list for updates on future events and celebrations, please email us at [email protected]. We are so grateful for the ways that each one of your lives has intersected with this house and this tradition.
