Prayer of the heart. Wednesday of the fifth week of Easter. Come holy
spirit and help me to put in your presence everything that worries me, everything
that worries me, everything that disturbs my peace. You know what my deepest
concerns are, but today I want to tell you, because it' s
better to share them with you than to pretend to face them with my few
human forces. Listen to me, sir, because I cry to you with
all my soul to you I raise my arms and I beg you to help
me or Irisa celebrate St Joseph the Worker, the Gospel is already St John,
chapter fifteen verses, one to eight. At that time Jesus said to
his disciples. I am the true vine, and my father is the husbandman
to every branch that does not bear fruit in my ravine, and to everyone
who bears fruit prunes it, that it may bear more fruit for you.
You are already cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you, abide
in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit on its
own unless it abides in the vine, neither can you. If you don
' t stay in me. I am the vine you branches that remain in
me and I in him. It bears abundant fruit, for without me you
can do nothing. The one who prepares, the one who does not remain
in me is thrown out like the branch and dried up. Then they gather
it and sprinkle the fire and burn yes, you remain in me and my
words, but they are born in you. Ask for what you desire and
it will be done. With this he receives glory to my Father with which
you give abundant fruit. Thus shall ye be my disciples SS. On the
one of May, the Church celebrates the feast of St Joseph, Patron Worker
of the workers, date that coincides with World Labor Day. This celebration was
instituted by him in a thousand nine hundred and fifty- five. This celebration,
I repeat liturgical, was replaced by one thousand nine hundred and fifty-
five by the venerable servant of God, Pope Pius III, before a group
of workers gathered in St Peter' s Square the Vatican. On this occasion
the Holy Father asked that the humble Worker of Nazarez, besides embodying before God
and the Church the dignity of the manual Hebrew, be also the proud guardian
of you and your families. The lights and shadows of the epoch we live
in are evident, he said, human development and Lord modes and Christian modes,
not Christians or humans to understand it, civil prose in many aspects and
the barbarism of others are contrasts that both St John Paul II and successors have
repeatedly pointed out by encouraging Christians to lighten society with the light of the Gospel.
However, many do not know him. Perhaps they think that in this
task it depends almost exclusively on those who govern or who have the ability to
influence by their social or economic position. This is not our attitude, because
it does not respond to the reality of the vocation to which we are called.
The Pope said, precisely Pope Pius XIII. What does the Lord want
us to be, Christians, because we have this supernatural responsibility to cooperate with
the power of God, for so he has arranged in His infinite mercy.
Those of us who seek to restore broken order and return to temporal structures in
all nations, their natural function as instruments for the process of humanity and their
supernatural function as a means of reaching God, for redemption. God formed Adam
with earth' s clay and created for him and for his offspring of this
beautiful world, to work and guard him, says Genesis chapter two. And
along the same lines we read the Book of Hobbe. Man is born to
work like the wings to fly. Pope Sanjua Peter II, on one of
his travels from Spain, specifically, in November of the eighty- two,
spoke of work as the primary blessing of God. With the following words,
the work responds to the design and will of God and the first pages of
Genesis. He presents creation to us as the work of God, the work
of God. For this reason, God calls man to work so that he
resembles him. The work did not, therefore, build an accessory fact and
less a curse from heaven. It is, on the contrary, a primary
blessing of the creator, an activity that allows the individual to perform and offer
a service to society. So understood, work is an act of love.
It is an act of love and becomes joy. The profound joy of giving
oneself through work or the family itself and others the intimate joy of giving oneself
to God and of serving the brothers. Although such a donation entails sacrifice.
The logical consequence is that we all have a duty to do well in our
work. If we want to perform ourselves properly, we cannot refuse our duty
or be content in working mediocrely without interest only in fulfilling so far the words
of the father. We cannot offer the Lord anything that, within the poor
human imitation, is not perfect without careful processing. Also in details, God
does not accept the bouts to overwhelm the Lord the sacrifice of Abel, that
is, a job well done. God has entrusted two men with the task
of building society at the service of their temporal and eternal good in a manner
consistent with their vocation so that it may be so. The son of God,
Jesus Christ, our lord has become, man, has incarnated and lived
among us. In this way, man, the Lord teaches us how to
infuse the Christian spirit into society through the sanctification of the professional work that he
developed in his hidden life, since by work he subjects the Christian, creation
and commands it to Christ Jesus within the center in which they are destined to
recapitulate all things. Each one knows how to propose the task of cristializing society
through work. First, by seeking to bring God, his co- workers,
his co- workers by profession and the people with whom he comes into
contact through his ordinary life s s S S. S is iso and inseparably
through the effort to Christianize the structures of one' s professional environment, ensuring
that they conform to the moral law and perform their work with human perfection.
The possibilities of contributing to the new evangelization of society by virtue of professional work
go beyond what one can accomplish. The status of citizens who exercise a profession
and society is a title to undertake initiatives of different genders together with other citizens
who share the same ideals, educational and youth initiatives, care initiatives, associations
to promote respect for life or truth, information or the right to a healthy
moral environment that we give our lives to the Lord God, our working with
perfection each of his professional nuns and in his state, without forgetting that we
must have a single aspiration in all our works, to put Christ and the
summit of all the activities of men. I gave you the blessing that if
I am in your heart so that you may know how to love with all
of him, that I may be on your lips so that you may be
able to speak with strength and faith of his resurrection, that you may open
your arms so that you may work tirelessly for morals, and that I may
post his kingdom, that it may be on your feet, that you may
walk after whole peace, which he will show you, that your eyes may
be clean so that your eyes may see Jesus in others, that he may
be in your joy so that you may never lose it, even if you
have reason and can give it to others. In the name of father and
son and holy spirit Amen