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Prayer of the heart. Wednesday of
the fifth week of Easter. Come holy

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spirit and help me to put in
your presence everything that worries me, everything

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that worries me, everything that disturbs
my peace. You know what my deepest

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concerns are, but today I want
to tell you, because it' s

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better to share them with you than
to pretend to face them with my few

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human forces. Listen to me,
sir, because I cry to you with

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all my soul to you I raise
my arms and I beg you to help

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me or Irisa celebrate St Joseph the
Worker, the Gospel is already St John,

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chapter fifteen verses, one to eight. At that time Jesus said to

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his disciples. I am the true
vine, and my father is the husbandman

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to every branch that does not bear
fruit in my ravine, and to everyone

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who bears fruit prunes it, that
it may bear more fruit for you.

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You are already cleansed by the word
that I have spoken to you, abide

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in me and I in you.
As the branch cannot bear fruit on its

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own unless it abides in the vine, neither can you. If you don

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' t stay in me. I
am the vine you branches that remain in

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me and I in him. It
bears abundant fruit, for without me you

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can do nothing. The one who
prepares, the one who does not remain

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in me is thrown out like the
branch and dried up. Then they gather

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it and sprinkle the fire and burn
yes, you remain in me and my

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words, but they are born in
you. Ask for what you desire and

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it will be done. With this
he receives glory to my Father with which

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you give abundant fruit. Thus shall
ye be my disciples SS. On the

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one of May, the Church celebrates
the feast of St Joseph, Patron Worker

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of the workers, date that coincides
with World Labor Day. This celebration was

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instituted by him in a thousand nine
hundred and fifty- five. This celebration,

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I repeat liturgical, was replaced by
one thousand nine hundred and fifty-

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five by the venerable servant of God, Pope Pius III, before a group

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of workers gathered in St Peter'
s Square the Vatican. On this occasion

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the Holy Father asked that the humble
Worker of Nazarez, besides embodying before God

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and the Church the dignity of the
manual Hebrew, be also the proud guardian

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of you and your families. The
lights and shadows of the epoch we live

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in are evident, he said,
human development and Lord modes and Christian modes,

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not Christians or humans to understand it, civil prose in many aspects and

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the barbarism of others are contrasts that
both St John Paul II and successors have

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repeatedly pointed out by encouraging Christians to
lighten society with the light of the Gospel.

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However, many do not know him. Perhaps they think that in this

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task it depends almost exclusively on those
who govern or who have the ability to

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influence by their social or economic position. This is not our attitude, because

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it does not respond to the reality
of the vocation to which we are called.

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The Pope said, precisely Pope Pius
XIII. What does the Lord want

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us to be, Christians, because
we have this supernatural responsibility to cooperate with

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the power of God, for so
he has arranged in His infinite mercy.

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Those of us who seek to restore
broken order and return to temporal structures in

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all nations, their natural function as
instruments for the process of humanity and their

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supernatural function as a means of reaching
God, for redemption. God formed Adam

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with earth' s clay and created
for him and for his offspring of this

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beautiful world, to work and guard
him, says Genesis chapter two. And

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along the same lines we read the
Book of Hobbe. Man is born to

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work like the wings to fly.
Pope Sanjua Peter II, on one of

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his travels from Spain, specifically,
in November of the eighty- two,

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spoke of work as the primary blessing
of God. With the following words,

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the work responds to the design and
will of God and the first pages of

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Genesis. He presents creation to us
as the work of God, the work

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of God. For this reason,
God calls man to work so that he

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resembles him. The work did not, therefore, build an accessory fact and

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less a curse from heaven. It
is, on the contrary, a primary

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blessing of the creator, an activity
that allows the individual to perform and offer

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a service to society. So understood, work is an act of love.

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It is an act of love and
becomes joy. The profound joy of giving

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oneself through work or the family itself
and others the intimate joy of giving oneself

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to God and of serving the brothers. Although such a donation entails sacrifice.

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The logical consequence is that we all
have a duty to do well in our

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work. If we want to perform
ourselves properly, we cannot refuse our duty

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or be content in working mediocrely without
interest only in fulfilling so far the words

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of the father. We cannot offer
the Lord anything that, within the poor

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human imitation, is not perfect without
careful processing. Also in details, God

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does not accept the bouts to overwhelm
the Lord the sacrifice of Abel, that

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is, a job well done.
God has entrusted two men with the task

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of building society at the service of
their temporal and eternal good in a manner

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consistent with their vocation so that it
may be so. The son of God,

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Jesus Christ, our lord has become, man, has incarnated and lived

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among us. In this way,
man, the Lord teaches us how to

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infuse the Christian spirit into society through
the sanctification of the professional work that he

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developed in his hidden life, since
by work he subjects the Christian, creation

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and commands it to Christ Jesus within
the center in which they are destined to

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recapitulate all things. Each one knows
how to propose the task of cristializing society

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through work. First, by seeking
to bring God, his co- workers,

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his co- workers by profession and
the people with whom he comes into

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contact through his ordinary life s s
S S. S is iso and inseparably

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through the effort to Christianize the structures
of one' s professional environment, ensuring

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that they conform to the moral law
and perform their work with human perfection.

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The possibilities of contributing to the new
evangelization of society by virtue of professional work

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go beyond what one can accomplish.
The status of citizens who exercise a profession

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and society is a title to undertake
initiatives of different genders together with other citizens

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who share the same ideals, educational
and youth initiatives, care initiatives, associations

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to promote respect for life or truth, information or the right to a healthy

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moral environment that we give our lives
to the Lord God, our working with

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perfection each of his professional nuns and
in his state, without forgetting that we

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must have a single aspiration in all
our works, to put Christ and the

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summit of all the activities of men. I gave you the blessing that if

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I am in your heart so that
you may know how to love with all

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of him, that I may be
on your lips so that you may be

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able to speak with strength and faith
of his resurrection, that you may open

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your arms so that you may work
tirelessly for morals, and that I may

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post his kingdom, that it may
be on your feet, that you may

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walk after whole peace, which he
will show you, that your eyes may

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be clean so that your eyes may
see Jesus in others, that he may

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be in your joy so that you
may never lose it, even if you

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have reason and can give it to
others. In the name of father and

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son and holy spirit Amen