{"id":301653,"date":"2019-08-31T12:40:43","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T16:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/?p=301653"},"modified":"2019-08-31T12:40:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T16:40:43","slug":"st-john-paul-laborer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/deaconsbench\/2019\/08\/st-john-paul-laborer\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John Paul, Laborer"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201c<em>By means of work, man participates in the activity of God himself, his Creator.\u201d \u2014 John Paul II<\/em><\/h3>\n<div class=\"taboola-read-more\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2019\/08\/YoungKarolWojtyla.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-301656\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/56\/2019\/08\/YoungKarolWojtyla.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"345\" height=\"400\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Enjoy this Labor Day weekend \u2014 and enjoy as well these thoughts from a fellow laborer:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI come from your midst. I come from the quarries of Zakrzowek, from the Solvay furnaces in Borek Falecki, and then from Nowa Huta. Through all these surroundings, through my own experience of work, I boldly say that I learned the gospel anew.\u201d \u2014 Pope John Paul II, homily in Nowa Huta, Poland, July 1979.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">+<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe truth that by means of work man participates in the activity of God himself, his Creator, was given particular prominence by Jesus Christ-the Jesus at whom many of his first listeners in Nazareth were astonished, saying, \u2018Where did this man get all this? What is the wisdom given to him?.. Is not this the carpenter?\u2019. For Jesus not only proclaimed but first and foremost fulfilled by his deeds the \u2018gospel,\u2019 the word of eternal Wisdom, that had been entrusted to him. Therefore this was also \u2018the gospel of work,\u2019 because he who proclaimed it was himself a man of work, a craftsman like Joseph of Nazareth. And if we do not find in his words a special command to work-but rather on one occasion a prohibition against too much anxiety about work and life- at the same time the eloquence of the life of Christ is unequivocal: he belongs to the \u2018working world,\u2019 he has appreciation and respect for human work. It can indeed be said that he looks with love upon human work and the different forms that it takes, seeing in each one of these forms a particular facet of man\u2019s likeness with God.\u201d \u2014\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/john_paul_ii\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_jp-ii_enc_14091981_laborem-exercens_en.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\" decorated-link\">\u201cOn Human Labor\u201d<\/a>, 1981.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBy means of work, man participates in the activity of God himself, his Creator.\u201d \u2014 John Paul II Enjoy this Labor Day weekend \u2014 and enjoy as well these thoughts from a fellow laborer: \u201cI come from your midst. 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