Monday, September 5, 2022

Restoring to work its dignity (Walter Ciszek)


    There is a tremendous truth contained in the realization that when God became man, he became a working man. Yet he did not think it demeaning, beneath his dignity, dehumanizing. If anything, he restored to man’s work its original dignity, its essential function as a share in God’s creative act. He did it to make it plain that the plainest and dullest of jobs is—or at any rate can be, if viewed properly in respect to God and to eternity—a sharing in the divine work of creation and redemption, a daily opportunity to cooperate with God in the central acts of his covenant of salvation. 

--Walter Ciszek          

Image source: Ade Bethune, Jesus the Carpenter, published in The Catholic Worker, https://portsmouthabbeymonastery.org/2019-archives  

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