If we contemplate the life of Jesus during these years without external relief, we will see him working well, without any sloppiness, filling the hours of intense work. We imagine the Lord picking up the instruments of work, leaving things in order, affably receiving the neighbor who is going to order something from him..., also the less pleasant one, and the one with a not very pleasant conversation. Jesus would have the prestige of doing things well, because he did everything well: Mk 7:37, even material things.
And all those who treated him were moved to be better, and received the benefits of the quiet prayer of Christ.
The Lord's office was not brilliant; neither was it comfortable, nor of great human prospects. But Jesus loved his daily work, and taught us to love ours, without which it is impossible to sanctify it, "for when one does not love one's work, it is impossible to find in it any kind of satisfaction, no matter how often one changes tasks.
5 The Lord also knew the weariness and fatigue of daily toil, and experienced the monotony of days without relief and without apparent history. This consideration is also of great benefit to us, for "the sweat and toil which work necessarily entails in the present condition of mankind offer to the Christian and to every man who has been called to follow Christ the possibility of participating in the love of the work which Christ has come to accomplish.
This work of salvation was accomplished precisely through suffering and death on the cross. By enduring the fatigue of work in union with Christ crucified for us, man collaborates in a certain way with the Son of God in the redemption of humanity. He shows himself to be a true disciple of Jesus, bearing in turn the cross of each day in the activity he has been called to carry out "6.
Jesus, during these thirty years of hidden life, is the model that we must imitate in our lives as ordinary men who work every day. Contemplating the figure of the Lord, we understand more deeply the obligation we have to work well: we cannot claim to sanctify a job poorly done. We must learn to find God in our human occupations, to help our fellow citizens and to contribute to raising the level of society as a whole and of creation7. A bad professional, a student who does not study, a bad shoemaker... if he does not change and improve, he cannot attain holiness in the midst of the world.
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