How Work Helps Each of Us and All of Us
Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski summarized his teachings about work in the Introduction to Working Your Way to Heaven . (We've been discussing this great book.) To fully understand his objectives in describing what work means, we begin by understanding that work not only enhances the spiritual progress of each of our soul's as an individual. As we saw in our two previous posts, Work is one means of spiritual progress. Work is a need of the rational nature of man. Man gets to know himself fully through work. Man learns to express himself fully through work. Not only ought we to see work from out individual perspective, we also need to grasp the nature of the social aspect of work. Let's let Cardinal Wyszynski explain further: The endless hardship of work links man's most precious faculties - his physical strength and spiritual powers - in an indissoluble union. In submission to the laws of private life and social we devote the greater part of our lives to work. W...