Today is the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker. This feast was established in 1955 by Pope Pius XII to foster a deeper devotion to St. Joseph among Catholics and in response to Communist “May Day celebrations.
In his encyclical Laborem Exercens, Pope John Paul II stated: “the Church considers it her task always to call attention to the dignity and rights of those who work, to condemn situations in which that dignity and those rights are violated, and to help to guide [social] changes so as to ensure authentic progress by man and society.”
This silent saint, who was given the noble task of caring and watching over the Virgin Mary and Jesus, now cares for and watches over the Church as its universal patron and models for all the dignity of human work.
