At this moment on the mountains the footsteps of one bearing good news,…I’m not sure what good this worker ant is bearing, but I took a break from my work long enough to watch her work her good down into the hole…and speaking of footsteps…
R. It is I who deal death and give life, while demonstrating the need to protect employment.
Surely, the LORD shall do justice for his people; this has to do not only with manual or agricultural labour but with any activity involving a modification of existing reality, from producing a social report to the design of a technological development.
R. It is I who deal death and give life, while demonstrating the need to protect employment.
“Learn then that I, I alone, am God”, and underlying every form of work is a concept of the relationship which we can and must have with what is other than ourselves.
R. It is I who deal death and give life, while demonstrating the need to protect employment.
I will sharpen my flashing sword, with the awe-filled contemplation of creation and a balanced understanding of the meaning of work.
R. It is I who deal death and give life, while demonstrating the need to protect employment.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness;
for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven, but surely God will understand if I don’t take up my cross in the capitalistic workplace which operates on profit.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Pope Francis meets with Jesuits working in Canada during a meeting at the archbishop’s residence in Quebec July 29, 2022. Pictured with the group is Cardinal Michael Czerny, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world
and forfeit his life?
MT 16: 26
If we reflect on the proper relationship between human beings and the world around us, we see the need for a correct understanding of work; if we talk about the relationship between human beings and things, the question arises as to the meaning and purpose of all human activity.
this quote as well as sections in italics above are from paragraph 125 of Laudato Si