{"id":2918,"date":"2008-08-31T23:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/08\/happy-labor-day-from-pope-john-paul.html"},"modified":"2008-08-31T23:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-31T23:52:00","slug":"happy-labor-day-from-pope-john-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/08\/happy-labor-day-from-pope-john-paul.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Labor Day, from Pope John Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Karol Wojtyla, as a young factory worker in Poland.<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n

“I 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.” — Pope John Paul II, homily in Nowa Huta, Poland, July 1979.<\/p>\n

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“The 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, ‘Where did this man get all this? What is the wisdom given to him?.. Is not this the carpenter?’.” For Jesus not only proclaimed but first and foremost fulfilled by his deeds the “gospel”, the word of eternal Wisdom, that had been entrusted to him. Therefore this was also “the gospel of work”, 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 “working world”, 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’s likeness with God.” — “On Human Labor”<\/a>, 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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