Feast of St. Joseph the worker
Work is always a hot topic; every one does it; everyone talks about it; everyone seeks to avoid it.
Work has a negative connotation, as something to be avoided or quickly done, or found a way around. Yet in reality, work simply means an effort put forth to accomplish something. All things are involved in work. The cross itself was the work of redemption.
John Paul II reminds us that man imitates God both when he works and when he rest, since God Himself wished to present His own creative activity under the form of work and rest.
Thus, man's work is a participation in God's activity and this awareness must permeate through all activity even the most ordinary everyday activities. Only then can work truly lead to rest.
Thus all becomes an avenue to an encounter the divine.
This is why Jesus in his parables on the Kingdom includes references to human work especially in mentioning ordinary labor: shepherds, farmers, doctors, sowers, householders, servants, stewards, fisherman, merchants, laborers and others.
The kingdom is made manifest when work is fully embraced and directed to the Glory of God. In work, thanks to the light of Christ, the son of the carpenter, which penetrates it from the resurrection, the work of redemption, there is always to be found a glimmer of new life, the echo of the good news proclaiming that the Kingdom of God is near.
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