We, the Ordinary People of the Streets comprises the powerful reflections by Madeleine Delbrêl (1904-1964), an award-winning poet, writer, and Catholic layperson whose conviction and insight led her to a life of social work in the atheistic, Communist-dominated city of Ivry-sur-Seine, France. Delbrêl draws from her own experiences living in Ivry, witnessing to the possibility of a life at once rooted radically in the church and fully engaged in the world. This posthumously published collection spans Delbrêl’s life, from a piece she wrote as a seventeen-year-old atheist to her later Christian works. Her passionate essays explore the Christian’s role in a secular society, the difficulty of faith in an atheistic environment, the need for prayer, the centrality of the church, and the fundamental importance of loving both God and our neighbors.
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MADELEINE DELBRÊL, a poet by nature and an atheist by conviction, underwent a radical conversion at the age of twenty that led her to found, in 1933, a “gospel” community of lay women dedicated to poverty, chastity, and work among the poor. Though publishing only two books during her lifetime, including La Route, a book of poetry awarded the Sully Prudhomme Prize, she left behind a wealth of texts now collected in four volumes.
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