Thou faithful protector of all our work, alleluia.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Work was the daily expression of love in the life of the In the human growth of Jesus “in wisdom, age and The importance of work in human life demands that its What is crucially important here is the sanctification of Pope John Paul II, Redemptoris Custos<\/span>, 1989<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pray for us, Saint Joseph, alleluia. Thou faithful protector of all our work, alleluia. Work was the daily expression of love in the life of the Family of Nazareth. The Gospel specifies the kind of work Joseph did in order to support his family: he was a carpenter. This simple word sums up Joseph’s entire … Continue reading Saint Joseph the Worker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1710],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"St](\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20Jospeh%20GReni.jpg\")
\nFamily of Nazareth. The Gospel specifies the kind of work Joseph did in order
\nto support his family: he was a carpenter. This simple word sums up Joseph’s
\nentire life. For Jesus, these were hidden years, the years to which Luke refers
\nafter recounting the episode that occurred in the Temple: “And he went
\ndown with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them” (Lk 2:51).
\nThis “submission” or obedience of Jesus in the house of Nazareth
\nshould be understood as a sharing in the work of Joseph. Having learned the
\nwork of his presumed father, he was known as “the carpenter’s son.”
\nIf the Family of Nazareth is an example and model for human families, in the
\norder of salvation and holiness, so too, by analogy, is Jesus’ work at the side
\nof Joseph the carpenter. In our own day, the Church has emphasized this by
\ninstituting the liturgical memorial of St. Joseph the Worker on May 1. Human
\nwork, and especially manual labor, receive special prominence in the Gospel.
\nAlong with the humanity of the Son of God, work too has been taken up in the
\nmystery of the Incarnation, and has also been redeemed in a special way. At the
\nworkbench where he plied his trade together with Jesus, Joseph brought human
\nwork closer to the mystery of the Redemption.
\ngrace,” the virtue of industriousness played a notable role, since
\n“work is a human good” which “transforms nature” and makes
\nman “in a sense, more human.”
\nmeaning be known and assimilated in order to “help all people to come
\ncloser to God, the Creator and Redeemer, to participate in his salvific plan
\nfor man and the world, and to deepen…friendship with Christ in their lives,
\nby accepting, through faith, a living participation in his threefold mission as
\nPriest, Prophet and King.”
\ndaily life, a sanctification which each person must acquire according to his or
\nher own state, and one which can be promoted according to a model accessible to
\nall people: “St. Joseph is the model of those humble ones that
\nChristianity raises up to great destinies; …he is the proof that in order to
\nbe a good and genuine follower of Christ, there is no need of great things-it
\nis enough to have the common, simple and human virtues, but they need to be
\ntrue and authentic.”