When work is done in common –
when hope, hardship, ambition and joy are shared
– it brings together and firmly unites
the wills, minds and hearts of men.
In its accomplishment,
men find themselves to be brothers.
You are submerged by a flood of troubles that the size of your household places on your shoulders. You must, then, call upon our Lord all the more and beg for his holy help, so that the work you must do will be agreeable to him and so that you will embrace it for his honor and glory.
Our days are few (cf. Job 14:1), and consequently our labor cannot be overlong. By means of a little patience, we will get through it with honor and contentment, for we have no greater consolation at the end of the day than to have worked hard and shouldered its pains.
Your Spiritual Journey
Image source 1: Gustave Caillebotte, Les raboteurs du parquet (1876), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_raboteurs_de_parquet#/media/File:Gustave_Caillebotte-Floor-scrapers_(1876).jpg. You may also be familiar with Caillebotte’s earlier (1875) rendition of this subject, our Image source 2, which can be seen at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_raboteurs_de_parquet#/media/File:Gustave_Caillebotte_-_The_Floor_Planers_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg For more information on Caillebotte and the reception of these paintings, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_raboteurs_de_parquet
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