Between my being a bit busy with helping with faith formation and my pain issues I haven’t posted for a while. Monday and Tuesday faith formation sessions had their last classes for the year. Plus, the church is getting ready for the white elephant sale and spring-a-rama so there was a lot going on those two days.
I celebrated my birthday on Thursday. My sister flew in from Texas and we are at our parents place now, and our other sister is coming up later today so I am having a wonderful time.
Thursday May 1 was also the feast day of St. Joseph The Worker and International Workers Day. Those two celebrations go hand-in-hand. I wonder if it was more than a coincidence that International Workers Day was chosen to be on May 1.
Pope Francis tweeted a message for those in political positions who can enact legislation which would affect employment, bringing more jobs for the unemployed.
“I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good”.
During a meeting with Italian steelworkers the Pope again echoed the utmost importance of employment saying, “to reaffirm that employment is an essential reality for society, for families and for individuals. Work, in fact, directly regards the person, his/her life, freedom and happiness.”
Pope Francis continued:
“The primary value of employment is the good of the human person,” he said, because it “realizes a person,” intellectually by making demands on his or her attitudes and creative and manual abilities. Employment, then, should not be considered simply as a means for obtaining profit, but above all a purpose that affects man and his dignity. And if there is no work, this dignity is wounded!”
He said: “Anyone who is unemployed or underemployed risks, in fact, being placed on the margins of society, becoming a victim of social exclusion. Many times it happens that people out of work – I think especially of the many unemployed young people today- slip into chronic discouragement or worse, apathy.”
From Catholic Online:
Since Joseph does not appear in Jesus’ public life, at his death, or resurrection, many historians believe Joseph probably had died before Jesus entered public ministry.
Joseph is the patron of the dying because, assuming he died before Jesus’ public life, he died with Jesus and Mary close to him, the way we all would like to leave this earth.
Joseph is also patron of the universal Church, fathers, carpenters, and social justice.
We celebrate two feast days for Joseph: March 19 for Joseph the Husband of Mary and May 1 for Joseph the Worker.
Joseph was foster father to Jesus. There are many children separated from families and parents who need foster parents. Please consider contacting your local Catholic Charities or Division of Family Services about becoming a foster parent.
Here is historical background on what spurred the creation of International Workers Day — http://www.iww.org/history/library/misc/origins_of_mayday
There were protests around the globe in honor of International Workers Day. You can look here to see which countries held protests.
The Church made a mistake in chosing the Socialist May Day as the date for the newly invented feast of St Joseph the Worker. It was more sucking up to the Left, just like the Pope’s meeting with the left wing Steelworkers Union
Dear Teresa,
It is my sincere hope and wish that you can find appropriate medication and treatment, and find a release from the physical issues that have tormented you so long. My own life has been interesting in recent weeks; my life, my love and my Lady died abruptly of a heart attack, with no warning at all, one month ago. I was devastated. I still am.
The effect upon me was profound, including on my physical systems — and last Wednesday I made it to the emergency room only about five hours short of death from a complete blood clotting failure. (I was a mess, bleeding from every place one could bleed inside and out, and from a few other places as well.) Transfusions and IVs and a massive vitamin campaign straightened me out, and improved my thinking as well. (I’d evidently bled into the brain.)
Two days ago, one last remnant had me hunched over the commode for twelve hours, and I thought of you — having to deal with such grief not for hours, but for weeks and months and years. I do not envy you, my friend. Now I feel much better — but you are still stuck where you are, and where you never deserved to be. May you find something that works! And look closely at blood issues, as these can be extraordinary in impact, and are often addressable.
As an aside, I share Kate’s concern about the Catholic decision to commemorate the Communist holiday that way. That is troubling and disappointing, and has more world impact than the recent Colorado high school’s decision to substitute “under Allah” for “under God” in their school-wide recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.
I must also note that “Joseph the Worker” is actually Joseph of “Technicolor Dreamcoat” fame — who was not so much a worker as an excellent and skilled hired CEO. He did, according to the Bible, an extraordinary job of managing the business of Egypt for his shareholder (the Pharoah), and thus is exactly the sort of person that modern Socialists despise. He strikes me as an odd choice to represent the downtrodden “worker.”
Best wishes, my friend.
===|==============/ Keith DeHavelle
Keith,
I am so sorry for your loss. That is awful that you had to go through a major medical emergency. So happy to hear you are doing better now.
Thank you very much for your kind, thoughtful and caring words my friend. Today has been a bad health day so I am going to wait to respond to your concerns in the last two paragraphs.
Wishing you many blessings — Teresa
Happy birthday, retroactively speaking (can I speak retroactively?)
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