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Hey there, sprouts. Today is Friday, May 1st, 2020. It is also the feast day of St. Joseph, the worker.

Now, this week, we have been doing a tribute to health care workers by highlighting some incredible saints that have also worked in health care,

namely St. Martin de Poros, who walked through locked doors to care for people in quarantine.

St. Giuseppe Mascati, who never gave up hope and spent his life working with incurable patients.

St. Catherine of Siena, who loved people during the Black Plague, and St. John of God, who gave his whole second half of his life to care for the poor

and the ill, and got some pretty remarkable angelic help to do that.

Now, today, we are going to honor the patron of today, St. Joseph, the worker.

You might remember that we celebrated St. Joseph's other feast day back in March.

He is another feast day, St. Joseph, the husband of Mary.

But today, we have a newer feast day where we talk about him as a worker.

Now, why is it so important? Why do we need to think about St. Joseph as a worker? Well, chances are you spend time working right now, even if that work is simply doing chores around your house and completing

your schoolwork. But as you grow, you will most certainly have a job then as well. You will

spend your days and probably the majority of your time on this earth working. We all have to do

work to earn money. So we have a house to live in, food to eat. We can

supply for the children that might come along, pay for education, all sorts of things. Now, because we

spend so much time working, it is important that in some way that time can be made holy. God needs to

penetrate every part of our lives. We don't live different little compartmentalized lives,

meaning we don't have a time of our day where God is there and we pray. But then once we're done with

prayer, we close that and we go to something where God is simply not part of it. We don't go to a job

and completely forget about God. That's not how Christians are called to live. We're called to live

with Jesus inside of us, with us, moving

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