With these words, the Pilgrim Pope underlined between the lines the importance of Saint Joseph in the understanding and sanctification of work, that is, how the figure of the adoptive father of Jesus is inspiration, example and company on the path that human beings travel to sanctify ourselves. and fulfill ourselves, through the specific work that we have to perform.
Later, during the Workers’ Jubilee of the year 2000, the Polish Pope would add:
“Dear workers, businessmen, cooperators, financial agents and merchants, join your arms, your mind and your heart to contribute to building a society that respects man and his work… Man is worth more for what he is than for what he has. How much he fulfills himself in the service of a greater justice, a broader fraternity and a more humane order in social relations, he counts more than any type of progress in the technical field.
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