Holy work.This Labor Day Labor Day, holiday celebrated in the United States and Canada on the first Monday in September to honor the laborer. It was inaugurated by the Knights of Labor in 1882 and made a national holiday by the U.S. Congress in 1894. reflect on the sacredness of all work: "It is not only prayer that gives God glory but work. Smiting on an anvil anvil Iron block on which metal is placed for shaping, originally by hand with a hammer. The blacksmith's anvil is usually of wrought iron (sometimes of cast iron), with a smooth working surface of hardened steel. , sawing a beam, painting a wall, driving horses, sweeping, scouring scouring characterized by scour. scouring disease a colloquial name for secondary nutritional copper deficiency. , everything gives God some glory if being in his grace you do it as your duty. To go to Communion worthily gives God great glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop-pail, give him glory, too. He is so great that all things give him glory if you mean they should. So then, my brethren, live." (Gerard Manley Hopkins Noun 1. Gerard Manley Hopkins - English poet (1844-1889) Hopkins , S.J., in Ordinary Graces, edited by Lorraine Kisly, Harmony Books) |
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