To nail a virtue means rediscovering one solid square foot of Reality. The idea that work can sanctify wasn't original to St. Benedict, but the way he said it helped make Western Christendom a healthier, holier place. If we think of our work as a prayer, we can find ourselves fulfilled by digging a ditch, and digging it as well as ever we can. Likewise in answering e-mails, baking casseroles, bathing squirming toddlers who accidentally urinate in one's face -- and even, though the blood drains from my face as I say it, in grading student essays. Any work that isn't a sin (liturgists, I mean you) can serve to sanctify.
Well worth the read here.
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2 comments:
this is awesome. and I mean that in both senses of the word.
you have captured what it is to embrace our vocation wholly in order to become, well, holy. :)
thank you for sharing.
I love John Zmirak.
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