Posted on 07/09/2021 6:42:57 PM PDT by marshmallow
Beginning in 2022, Louisiana will recognize May 1 of each year as St. Joseph the Worker Day
In 1955, Pope Pius XII added a new feast day to the Church calendar: He declared May 1 as the feast of St. Joseph the Worker. The feast corresponded with the Communist-inspired International Workers’ Day (May Day), and served to remind the world that Christianity finds dignity in labor. The spirit flows to men from the heart of Christ, Pope Pius XII explained, “but certainly, no worker was ever more completely and profoundly penetrated by it than the foster father of Jesus, who lived with him in closest intimacy and community of family life and work.”
Now, 66 years later, the state of Louisiana has joined with the Catholic Church in honoring St. Joseph as a model for workers. Beginning May 1, 2022, Louisiana will recognize May 1 of each year as St. Joseph the Worker Day. The State Senate also formally recognized the Year of St. Joseph, as declared by Pope Francis in his apostolic letter Patris Corde (With a Father’s Heart), and expressed their appreciation for all working men and women in the state.
State Senator Fred Mills submitted Senate Resolution 116, which called for the state “to recognize May first of each calendar year as St. Joseph the Worker day in Louisiana; to commemorate the ‘Year of St. Joseph;’ and on May first of each calendar year, to recognize and appreciate the dignity of all working men and women in Louisiana.”
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What took them so long? I always liked that feast day.
Yeah La, you’re alright.
St Joseph and Immaculate Spouse, pray for our unemployed that they may find a job.
Better than St. Floyd of fentanyl day.
Gee. May 1.
I’m told in pagan circles, that’s Baal’s birthday.
May 1? Thought that was a day for Mary? In NJ St. Joseph’s day is still a thing, a bit. March 19th, isn’t it? Don’t the swallows return to Capistrano on that day? In Jersey you can get some special pastry or cookie but I forget exactly what it is.
LOL
In the wrong hood somebody hears you make that joke and me laughing out loud they'll "go upside our haids." A solemn day. Real solemn.
Louisiana...working.....riiiight.
The first of May goes back further than when the Communists hijacked it, and further back than any ‘church holiiday’..
The First of May, according to older agrarian calendars, was celebrated as: 1. Beltane, the marriage of the God and Goddess; 2.The first day of summer, (since summer solstice is the peak of summer. this makes sense); 3. The day that the Maypole was danced.
IIRC St. Joseph’s Day is March 19th - two days after St. Patrick’s Day.
It’s the day you plant pea seeds in your garden.
(For you in the south, they are called English peas and they can withstand frost.)
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