What is work? Why is it so hard? What defines success? Can we serve both God and mammon? How do we rightly order our vocations so that first things come first? And does that ordering look different for men and women?
Talking about these things and more in the attic, this week on Visitation Sessions.
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Show Notes:
Church Documents
Rerum Novarum (On the Condition of Labor)—Pope Leo XIII, 1891
Quadragesimo Anno (After Forty Years)—Pope Pius XI, 1931
Mater et Magistra (Christianity and Social Progress)—St. John XXIII, 1961
Populorum Progressio (On the Development of Peoples)—Blessed Paul VI, 1967
Laborem Exercens (On Human Work)—St. John Paul II, 1981
Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (On Social Concern)—St. John Paul II, 1987
Centesimus Annus (The Hundredth Year)—St. John Paul II, 1991
Shop Craft as Soul Craft by Matthew Crawford
Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
Men (and Women) at Work