Posted on 09/02/2019 9:07:05 AM PDT by Salvation
Monsignor Pope Ping!
This basic statement is true and has always been so.
We need the support, cooperation and at times the affection of others to have the best life.
Much of that support comes from knowing we now share the same experience of being alive through God’s grace. Our life is a gift. We have choices in how to use or acknowledge that gift. I must remind myself of that every so often, so I don’t get stuck on being negative.
Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man And makes flesh his strength, Whose heart departs from the Lord. For he shall be like a shrub in the desert, And shall not see when good comes, But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, In a salt land which is not inhabited.Jeramiah 17:5-8.“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.
Democratic President Grover Cleveland was concerned that a labor holiday on May 1 would tend to become a commemoration of the Haymarket Affair and would strengthen socialist and anarchist movements that backed the May 1 commemoration around the globe. In 1887, he publicly supported the September Labor Day holiday as a less inflammatory alternative.
The date was formally adopted as a United States federal holiday in 1894. Thus, Labor Day is effectively the US' celebration of the sentiments embodied in the world's celebration on May 1...not too cool.
What IS cool, is that May 1 was established as The Feast of St. Joseph the Worker by Pope Pius XII in 1955 in order to counter communist and socialist appropriation of labor as a social good. Perhaps this sentiment is best explained by Ven. Fulton Sheen:
Communism has chosen the Cross in the sense that it has brought back to an egotistic world a sense of discipline, self-abnegation, surrender, hard work, study, and dedication to supra-individual goals. But the Cross without Christ is sacrifice without love. Hence, Communism has produced a society that is authoritarian, cruel, oppressive of human freedom, filled with concentration camps, firing squads, and brain-washings.
Thus, by extension, I consider Labor Day to be a day to celebrate the model of St. Joseph. As such, in the midst of burgers and a day off, for me Labor Day is a day to celebrate the value of work within the context of my vocation as husband/father/provider, and not some socialist/communist bastardized view of agitation, hatred, and conflict.
For those of us who see Labor Day as just a waste; it is important to both celebrate and remember that this day is also V-J Day.
U.S. Army ground troops suffered 41,592 killed and 145,706 wounded.
But also think of the second of the great commandments to love your neighbor as well.
You can only truly love others by the grace of Christ. But loving others by the grace of Christ is difference than trusting in man instead of the Lord. BIG difference.
The two great commandments BOTH NEED each other in order to work.
Take it as a gentle correction.
GMTA.
Two things:
1) “You are not under the law but under grace.” Romans 6:14.
2) And, again, loving man is NOT the same thing trusting in man
Take these as gentle corrections.
Keeping the two great commandments not only keeps the commandments, but what you posted,Romans 6:14 helps it to shine bright.
Now take that as a gentle correction.
Well, although you seem to want to contradict Scripture which says to put your trust in the Lord and not in man, your response is basically a non sequitur.
May Day goes back to pre-Christian rites and fertility rituals. Ever heard of the dance of the May pole?
Christianity turned it into a “folk” festival to override the pagan meaning.
Was it an injustice to St. Joseph to try to paste him onto a communist holiday and thereby associate him unjustly with workers of the world uniting?
ps:
Remember Wiki is not an encyclopedia.
Good reminder.
What is your problem?
I do trust in the Lord.
Thank-you for the posting. God Bless.
Bless you for stopping by and commenting.
I'm sure you do.
My first post, which you challenged, was not aimed at you (I didn't even know you were on this thread).
My posts here are not about you but about those who put their trust in man (including one's own self effort) "whose heart departs from the Lord." Easy to do when one is glorifying one's own work instead of the finished work of Christ.
Wiki is fine when corroborated; footnotes available upon request.
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