Why do you work? DO you have to work: of what value are all your daily tasks and human endeavors?Has your work become a burden or a source of joy and delight to you? Has the burden of your daily task become so heavy on you that you find no time for recreation and rest? In other words, are you a master or a slave of your daily work? Are you a workaholic? Has your work turned you into a "functioning person" rather than making you a "living person"? Is your work a source of inspiration and creativity or just mere routine? What are the goals and motivations for your profession and daily task? Are they geared towards materialistic and economic success or are they directed towards rendering service to humanity in the spirit of love, respect, freedom, and justice? In other words, is the measure of your labour merely based on temporary economic success or on transcendental, spiritual human values which help to promote human solidarity, freedom and dignity and which bring to perfection the vocation and the destiny of human family?
The primary concern of this book is to try to provide answers to these questions and other related ones. Following the Christian vision of work, the author presents the Three Persons of the Blessed Trinity as the primary source, orientation, and ultimate goal of all human labour. In an attempt to liberate the human person from the routine enslavement of work, he reflects on the "spirituality of Human Labour". Man is the Steward of God's participation in the Paschal Mystery of Christ which makes human labour divinized. It is this spiritual vision which gives meaning and motivation to all human labour. Man is the Steward of God's creative work.
All human work and professions must reflect this spirituality. Man's participation in the Pascal Mystery of Christ makes human labour divinized. It is this spiritual vision that gives meaning and motivation to all human labour. In order to protect humankind as a master and not a slave of his work, there is a need to consider the spirituality of rest. Under the manipulative pressure of human labour, the human person needs to have some rest. He must gradually learn to "rest in God" His daily rest prepares him for the eternal rest at the end of time when death will put a stop to all forms of human labour.
All human work and professions must reflect this spirituality. Man's participation in the Pascal Mystery of Christ makes human labour divinized. It is this spiritual vision that gives meaning and motivation to all human labour. In order to protect humankind as a master and not a slave of his work, there is a need to consider the spirituality of rest. Under the manipulative pressure of human labour, the human person needs to have some rest. He must gradually learn to "rest in God" His daily rest prepares him for the eternal rest at the end of time when death will put a stop to all forms of human labour.
Thus, presenting work, as an indispensable means of personal and communitarian sanctification and salvation, the entire book ultimately challenges the readers to carry out their work with an unfliching sense of gratitude and responsibility to God through whom and with whom they continue to render loving service to humanity until the end of time.It indeed continues to be a wonderful means of revealing God's glory in man.
So, "love your work, love the people with whom you work, For from love and goodness will spring also your joy and your satisfaction:. (Pope John Paul II)
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