Fifteen minutes with Christ the Worker






Fifteen Minutes with

Christ the Worker

BY

WILLIAM L SMITH, S.J.

THE PAULIST PRESS
401 West 59th Street
New York, N. Y.

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Censor Librorum.

Brooklynii,y

die XXlX Octobris, 1938.

Imprimatur:

Thomas Edmundus Molloy, S.T.D.,
Episcopus Brooklyniensis.

Brooklynii,

die XXXI Octobris, 1938.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED IN THE U. S. A.
BY THE PAULIST PRESS, NEW YORK, N. Y.



CHRIST THE WORKER
(with a Fifteen Minute Service")

The prayers in this booklet are
being used each Tuesday evening, in
a short service before classes, by the .
men and women who attend the
Crown Heights School of Catholic
Workmen, Brooklyn, N. Y. Together
with a five-minute talk, the prayers
take just fifteen minutes. It is with
the hope that they may be helpful to
Catholic workers in many places that
they have been published.
A short treatise on “Jesus of Naz-

areth, Lord and Laborer” is included
in the booklet to bring out more
forcefully the meaning of the prayers
and to familiarize the “man on the
street” with the mind of the Divine
Master in regard to him.
The “Hymn to Christ the Worker,”

the “0 Salutaris” and the Divine
Praises have been added for the bene-
fit of those who may wish to conclude
the service with Benediction of the
Most Blessed Sacrament.

The Author.
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"Is Not This the Carpenter's Son?"

When Christ set out to teach the
• people, His neighbors were aston-

ished. They were bewildered by His
winning ways and they wondered at
His wisdom. Poor, simple souls, the
only thing they could say was, “Is not

this the carpenter’s Son?” And in-
deed it was. When the Lord of Cre-
ation came to earth. He came to save
not to destroy. No sound of trumpet
heralded His coming, no tread of
marching feet thundered His ap-
proach. The roar of cannon and the
blazing torch played no part in His
conquest of the world.

He had chosen a virgin-maid to be
His Mother, as it had long before
been told. Joseph, a carpenter, was
His foster father and the protector
of the little family. Nazareth was to
be His dwelling place, Nazareth . . .
the backwoods of the world, Nazareth
so little thought of that people asked
“Can any good corne out of Naz-

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areth?” . . . had become the home of
God on earth.
The poorest of the poor, Mary and

Joseph and the Boy Jesus formed
a human family in the little cottage
that they called home ... a human
family that has been the model of
human living ever since. Joseph was
a carpenter and so, too, would the
Boy be. In the shop that Joseph
himself, most likely, had built He
served His apprenticeship. With the
tools that Joseph had forged and
fashioned, the Creator of the world
learned to labor in a human way.
The first stroke of the hammer in
that Sacred Hand brought a new dig-
nity to manual toil that the world
had never known before. Christ, the
Carpenter, had sanctified labor with
His own Hand.
One word from those youthful Lips,

one desire even from that divine Will
and the carpenter shop would have
been transformed into the most per-
fect of modernized factories, the tools
changed to split-second automatic
machinery. But He had not come
for that. His divinity was to be hid
beneath the lowliness of our human-

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ity. He would teach us the value of
toil and humility and obedience, by
learning it in a human way from the
privileged humans that the Father
had set over Him. Thirty arduous,
but peaceful years of His life He
spent in the workshop of a carpenter.
The hard blows from His home-made
hammer strengthened the muscles of
the growing boy. Tree trunks and
twisted stumps, cross-beams and two-
by-fours had felt the grip of those
hardened Hands as He pulled and
struck and sawed to fashion the
furniture that went to fit out the
homes of His friendly neighbors.
Many a day the honest sweat poured
from His Sacred Brow as He plied
His trade in the heat of the scorch-
ing sun. When the toil of the day
was over, just as any other hungry
workingman. He went back to the
cottage on the hillside, washed and
ate of the steaming meal which Mary
had made ready for Him. When the
evening prayer was said. He wel-
comed the well-earned night’s sleep
that would restore the strength to
His tired muscles and bring refresh-
ment to soul and body.

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This was the Carpenter of Naz-
areth. This was He who, with the
Father and the Holy Ghost, had en-
joyed from all eternity, as the Sec-
ond Person of the Trinity, the happi-
ness of heaven. He had seen the
angels come into being in the bright-
ness of their reflected glory and had
seen Lucifer fall from heaven like
the lightning. He had seen the stars
appear in the heavens and the earth
emerge from the flowing waters. He
had foreseen, with the Father, the
creation of the human race, the re-
bellion of its chosen representative
and the consequences that would fol-
low. He knew now the inner secrets
of the hearts of men to the end of
time and the broad movements of
history that had taken place and
those which are yet to come. The
universe was a tiny ball in the palm
of His Hand, yet His love for us had
driven Him to come and dwell
amongst us. His love for us was un-
satisfled until He could live our lives,
experience our joys and sorrows, and
Anally offer up His Own spotless life
upon a cross of shame to redeem,
with the sufferings of a human soul

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and body, those children of the Fa-
ther who with a human soul and
body, had defied the dignity and the
supremacy of the One and undivided
Trinity.

Jesus of Nazareth—Lord and Laborer
“If there is a God, why doesn’t He

show Himself to us?” is a challenge
that has been thrown at the Creator
of the world by ignorant men in va-
rious ways. Steeped in their own
pride or stified by willful ignorance
such blasphemers refuse to accept the
glad tidings of Christian revelation.

They can’t think and they won’t be-
lieve. Like the rebellious angels and
their own defiant first parents before
them, they still echo the cry, “We
will be like gods—^we will not serve.”
The answer to their challenge has

been given very convincingly by a
character in one of Owen Francis
Dudley’s books. It runs along some-
thing like this : “If you can tell me of
a better way for God to reveal Him-
self than the way He has, I would
like to know of it. What better way
could God have manifested Himself
than to speak to us with human lips,

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to look at us with human eyes, to
work His miracles for us with hu-
man hands?” Think that over. Are
not the means God used to bring us
the message of His Love for us, a
sign of Divine Wisdom? What bet-
ter way, what more attractive way,
what way more in keeping with our
own human dullness could God have
chosen ?

Only a man, ignorant of the char-
acter of Christ, or one, blind to His
grace, can doubt His claims to divin-
ity today. The critics of history have
fine-combed His character for a flaw
or imperfection. They have found
none. His ringing challenge still re-
sounds unanswered, “Who will con-
vince Me of sin?” His bitterest ene-
mies have been forced to admit that
no human intellect has ever equaled
His. The teachings He left are so
simple that the little tots in the grade
school can understand them. His
mysteries are so profound that men
of genius have stood bewildered be-
fore them. Yet never a contradiction
appears in any one of them. He
revolutionized society. With twelve
uneducated men He conquered the

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world. All world events are dated
before and after His birth.
One claim, in all His utterances,

stands forth with startling signiff-
cance. Upon it stands or falls every-
thing else that He said or did. It is
the keystone of Christian belief. If
it be true, He has the right to com-
mand the world, to reward or con-
demn every creature on the earth.
If it be false, religion is a mockery
and the Church of Christ the basest
fraud ever perpetrated by man upon
man.

Jesus Christ, the Carpenter of Naz-
areth, claimed to he God, equal to the
Father in all things! That claim is
either true or false. If true we owe
Him praise, reverence and service.
If false. He is neither holy nor bril-
liant, but the arch-hypocrite of his-
tory who suffered a death worthy of
His infamous deception.
God? Hypocrite? Fool? The ut-

ter absurdity that Jesus Christ was
either a fool or a hypocrite is per-
fectly evident to all except those who
blind themselves to the truth.
For a man to say that he is God

and really to be convinced of it, when

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it is not so, is a clear sign of insanity.

The asylums are filled with poor un-
fortunates who go about saying, “I
am Napoleon,” “I am Caesar.” Those
who have hated Christ the most have
testified that His intellectual ability

has never been equaled in history.

His intellectual soundness was such
that His subsequent deeds showed it
to be divine.

For a man to say that he is God,
and to know that he is speaking
falsely, is base hypocrisy. To carry
the deception to the extent of adding

threats of hell-fire to those who will
not believe him and to urge men to
endure torture and horrible death in
defense of his claim, would brand
the originator of such a scheme the
arch-hypocrite of history. The un-
answered argument for the sincerity
and holiness of the character of
Christ still goes ringing down the
years. “Who will convince Me of
sin ?” His holiness precludes the very
shadow of insincerity.

Thinking men and women accept
the truth when they find it.

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Christ claimed to be God. His
character substantiates that claim.

Three years of miracles confirm it.
The promise and the reality of His
Resurrection from the tomb, in con-
firmation of the claim, make it a
“fool-proof” historical fact for men
of good will.
We who enjoy the priceless gift of

faith need no arguments from rea-
son to tell us of the truth of Christ’s
divinity. The reality of His Pres-
ence in our hearts in Holy Commun-
ion, the soothing touch of His Heal-
ing Hand upon our hearts in the con-
soling Sacrament of Penance, the
nearness of Him that we experience
when the priest raises the unspotted
Host in Holy Mass tell us far better
than human words that it is His de-
light “to be with the children of
men.” Let us breathe a tiny prayer
that those who still sit in the shadow
of spiritual death, who have not yet
experienced what it means to know
the one true God, may by the example
of our lives be brought to the light
that came into the world when God
deigned to be made flesh in Jesus
Christ, the Carpenter of Nazareth.

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Christ' and the Man-on-the-Street

From the first to the last the Divine
Master cast His lot with people who
were poor and had to work for a liv-
ing. He lived His life as a humble
craftsman. He chose fishermen and
the like as His first disciples. He
preached to the poor. He taught His
lessons by examples taken from the
lives of men and women who stood
about and listened to Him.

His interests were the interests of
the people. He fed the multitude, He
filled the nets of His fisherman pu-
pils, He cured the sick and the lame
who lay helpless by the roadside.
The blind and the deaf and the lepers
who sought Him out were the poor
outcasts of society. When John the
Baptist sent word asking, from his
prison cell, if He were really the Re-
deemer, He gave as a proof of His
claim to the title—that the blind see
and the lame walk and the poor have
the Gospel preached to them.

He made Himself a man among
men. He talked the language that the
man on the street could understand
His aim was to draw men nearer to



heaven, but His lessons were taken
from the daily lives of His fellow
workers. He sees a farmer in the
field sowing seed and explains to His
listeners that grace is like a seed that
falls onto the earth. He tells the
merchants that salvation is like a
pearl to be sought at any sacrifice.
A shepherd goes by and He speaks
of repentance and the lost sheep. He
encourages initiative and the need of
heaping up spiritual riches by a story
of ten pieces of money. The justice
of a living wage and the generosity
of God to men are exemplified by a
story of workers in a vineyard. He
talks of servants and fishermen, of
farmers and housewives. Wine bot-
tles and wheat and cockle, new and
patched up clothing, bread and fishes
and coats all find their way into His
instructions. In His life, in His man-
ners, in His teaching, in His associa-
tions He identified Himself with the
working class. He was the God of
all, but His deepest concerns were for
those who could least protect them-
selves against the greed and the un-
just power of godless men. This be-
ing the spirit of Christ, He was not

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unmindful of those who would like
to work but are prevented from do-
ing so.

Christ and the Unemployed

When a man is out of a job, sees
his small hard-earned bank account
dwindle week by week, fears the
thought of beholding his family
evicted from the shack he looked upon
as home, he needs more than an ordi-
nary word of encouragement to keep
his feet on the ground. He will be-
come desperate and turn to rash
measures of self-defense or he will
drop on his knees and throw him-
self on the mercy of God. Christknew
that. He knew, too, that in the Divine
Plan that He and the Father had set
for the world such miseries were not
included. They are the outcome of
man’s ingratitude to man, the misuse
of God’s great natural gift, freedom
of the will. God so loved liberty and
so loved men that He wished to share
that great privilege with His children
even though they would use it at
times to turn against their fellow
creatures, yes, even against the very
One who gave it to them.

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But He would have no part in the
betrayal. By every means possible
He would induce men to use their
liberty in charity and justice. But
He could not deprive the unjust of
that power of free choice without
contradicting human nature as He
willed to create it. God tolerates the
misuse of our free wills, that the ra-

tional, God-fearing members of the
human race may enjoy the proper
use of them.
To offset the sufferings that come

to men because of the wickedness of
their fellow men He floods the world
with spiritual peace and joy. God
so made us that even the full posses-
sion of all the world can offer us
would never satisfy us. Our nature
is so noble a creation that nothing

less than the complete possession of
God Himself will ever bring our
hearts to rest. Only such a joy for
us can satisfy the Infinite Love that
He has for us. It is really to draw us
closer to Himself and away from the
snares of earth, to gain a greater
claim on His Care and Providence,
that He allows hardship and suffer-
ing to come into our lives.

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±sut there are many who wouid pre-
fer to choose their own way of life.
They have not fully learned God’s
place in the world and their own.
They have not yet grasped the mean-
ing of the word “creature” and the
word “Creator.” The fact that we
are but mud and spirit escapes them.
And so rebellion of spirit, disturb-
ance of mind creeps into their hearts.
Divinely aware of this danger and
humanly conscious of the weaknesses
of His children, Christ reassures us

of the tender care, the immeasurable
love that the Father has for us. A
tiny spark of the spirit contained in

the discourse of Christ which I am
about to quote, if it could but nestle in

the heart of every despairing soul,

could today change the universe.
These peaceful, powerful words of
Christ can bring hope into the most
hopeless heart. They have a divine
guarantee . . . they contain Christ’s

message to the unemployed and the
exploited . . . once grasped and accept-

ed on their face value they will turil

weakness into strength, distress into

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determination, fear into fortitude and
failure into a success that no world-
ly gain can ever equal.

Listen to the voice of the Laborer
of Nazareth, who was at once Lord
of the Universe, the Son of Mary,
and by trade a carpenter:
“Be not solicitous for your life,

what you shall eat; nor for your
body, what you shall put on. The
life is more than the food, and the
body is more than the raiment. Con-
sider the ravens, for they do not sow,
nor do they reap; neither have they
storehouse, nor barn, yet your heav-
enly Father feedeth them. How
much more valuable are you than
they? . . . And for the raiment, why
are you solicitous? Consider the
lilies of the field, how they grow ; they
labor not, neither do they spin; and
yet I say to you, that not even Solo-
mon, in all his glory, was arrayed as
one of these. Now, if God so clothe
the grass of the field, which today is
and tomorrow is cast into the oven,
how much more you, 0 ye of little
faith. Be not solicitous, therefore,
saying: What shall we eat, or what
shall we drink or wherewith shall we

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be clothed? and be not lifted up on
high. For all these things do the
nations of the world seek. But your
Father knoweth that you have need
of these things. But seek ye first the
kingdom of God and His justice, and
all these things shall be added unto
you.” . . . This is the divine guaran-
tee of Him who conquered the world,
who proved to be the master over
life and death, who gave His Life
that we might have confidence in His
words and promises.

Christ and the Wealthy Employer

The Divine Master was no less so-
licitous for the rich than He was for
the poor, but in a different way. To
the poor He was all sympathy and
tender compassion, to the rich He
was kindly stern. But He did not
shun the wealthy. He healed the
servant of a centurion, a foreign
army officer. The man had built a
synagogue for the Jewish people.
Zacheus was the chief tax collector
in a certain place and no doubt a no-
torious grafter. But Christ, in spite
of popular protest, had dinner with
him and won him to repentance.

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More than once He accepted invita-
tions to dine with people who were
not poor. But His purpose was to
reform them, not to cater to their po-
sition. He loved the rich as He loved
the poor, but His warnings against
love of riches were stinging and con-
stant. Riches can be made the in-
struments of justice, even as poverty
can elevate a soul to sanctity. The
possessor of vast wealth, however,
runs a far greater risk of eternal
damnation than those who are re-
moved from the temptations of greed
and avarice. He warned the wealthy
that it is easier for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle than for
a rich man to get to heaven. He
meant those whose hearts were set
on riches and who refused to use
their fortunes to save their souls.

When a poor widow dropped a few
pennies in the collection basket at the

Temple door. He called the attention
of the disciples to it. She had done
more than those who gave generous-
ly but who had plenty to give. The
classic parable that He preached on
profits should certainly give pause to
those who feel blessed in an abun-

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dance of this world’s goods. “And He
said to them: Take heed and beware
of all covetousness: for a man’s life
doth not consist in the abundance of
things which he possesseth. And He
spoke a similitude to them, saying

:

The land of a certain rich man
brought forth plenty of fruits. And
he thought within himself, saying:
What shall I do, because I have not
where to lay up together my fruits?
And he said: This will I do: I will
pull down my barns, and will build
greater: and into them will I gather
all things that are grown, to me, and
my goods. And I will say to my soul

:

Soul, thou hast much goods laid up
for many years, take thy rest, eat,
drink, made good cheer. But God
said to him: Thou fool, this night
do they require thy soul of thee; and
whose shall those things be which
thou hast provided? So is he that
layeth up treasure for himself, and is
not rich towards God.”

Rich and poor, employer and em-
ployee, white and black, Christian,
Jew and atheist ... we all belong to
God. He made us. He owns us. He
put into our hearts the love that is

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there and He wants it back. Noth-
ing we can do, nothing we can give
will be a substitute for the love we
owe to God. All the woe, all the
grief, the sorrow, the torture that
the world knows today is the result of
but one evil—God’s children have re-
fused to allow God to associate with
them.
The nations of the world cry for

peace, but there is no peace, for they
have exiled the Prince of Peace. The
happiness of the home is shattered
because pagan practices have
usurped the place of Christian mod-
esty. • The legislators of the land
make laws to insure peace and pros-
perity but they are futile because the
Author of all law and the Giver of
all good gifts is ignored. Injustice
stalks the earth and cruelty keeps the
nations of the world in chains be-
cause men place confidence in the
force of arms and the power that
money buys, forgetting the gentle
admonition, “Learn of Me for I am
meek and humble of heart.” There is
but one answer to it all . .

.

to our nat-
ural efforts must be added prayer . .

.

we must pray the world back to God.
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Fifteen Minute Service

HYMN TO CHRIST THE WORKER
(Tune—Ave Maris Stella No, 2)

(From Cantuale ad usam Domus Parisiensis Congrega-
tionis Missionis—page 233, Ed. 1910.)

1. Joseph at your work bench,
Mary with your mother’s care.
Showing Him our human ways.
Teach us now His Life to share.

Refrain
Guide our poor stumbling steps

aright.

Teach us to find our burden light,
Jesus Worker, bless our toil.

2. By Your toil with Joseph,
In Your days at Mary’s side,
Christ, the Worker, we have found,
Our own labor sanctified.—Refrain.

3. With a hammer in Your Hand,
Great Master of creation.
You gave to us Your workmen.
New symbols of salvation.

—Refrain.
4. Jesus, by Your labor.
Borne for us with sacred Love,
Teach us how to work and pray
Till we rest with Thee above.

—Refrain.
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PRAYER TO CHRIST, THE WORKER
I believe in God—^the Father Al-

mighty — Creator of heaven and
earth.—I believe in Jesus Christ—His
Only Son—True God and True Man.
Dear Lord—^by Your labors in the

carpenter shop of Nazareth—by the
honest sweat that dropped from Your
Sacred Brow—^by the hardened Hands
that held the hammer—^by the weari-
ness You felt from Your daily toil

—

You have shown us—^that You were
truly man even as we—Your fellow
workers.
Dear Lord, by the miracles You

wrought—with those same calloused
Hands—^by Your unquestioned holi-
ness—^by Your all-surpassing knowl-
edge—by Your power over life—and
Your victory over death in the
Resurrection—You proved to a scof-
fing world—^that You were indeed the
Son of God.

Christ, the Worker—King of Kings
—and Worker of Workers—I praise
You. . .
One with the Father and the Holy

Ghost—One God in Three Divine
Persons—-I adore you.

Sacred Heart of Jesus—rule the
world

!

Thy Kingdom Come!
Let Social Justice reign

!

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PRAYER FOR WORKERS

0 Christ, the Worker—You have
said, “Come to Me all you who labor
and are heavily burdened—and I will
refresh you.”—We come to You to-
night—^humbly and hopefully.—^You
are the Way, the Truth and the Life.
—In You alone can we find strength
and courage—peace and progress.

—

We believe that we have been made—^to the image and likeness of the
one true God.—^We refuse to believe
—that we are merely matter—one
with the worms of the earth—-and
the dirt of the fields.—^We are chil-
dren of the Father—endowed with
reason—gifted with a free will

—

beautified in Baptism—^by the grace
of the Creator.—We are the adopted
sons of God—sharers in the merits of
His own Son—destined to live forever
with the angels and the saints.

Give us the grace, O Christ, the
Worker—^to know our dignity as hu-
man beings.—Give us the grace—^to
recognize our duties—as members of
one human family. Teach us to do
an honest day’s work—for an honest
day’s pay—to do battle against injus-
tice—by prayer and sacrifice—^but

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never to yield—^to the impulse of vio-
lence—or revenge.

Sacred Heart of Christ the Worker
—be our strength—our solace—and
the model of our manhood.

PRAYER FOR THE UNEMPLOYED

O Christ, the Worker—You who
have said

—“The foxes have holes and
the birds of the air nests,—^but the
Son of Man hath not where to lay His
Head,”—look down with mercy and
kindness upon the unemployed.
Grant them the grace—of patience,
courage and perseverance—in their
dark day of trial.—Soften the hearts
of unjust men—whose lives contra-
dict Your teachings—whose souls are
shriveled—by a lust for gold.—Give
to the unhappy victims—of their in-
justice O Lord—a new abundance
of Your satisfying grace.—Teach
them the meaning of the words—

•

“Blessed are the meek, for they shall
possess the land.”—Strike fear into
the hearts of unjust possessors

—

that they may heed the warning

—

“Woe to you that are rich—for you
have your consolation.”—Relieve the
world of inhuman conditions—^that

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deprive men—of the right to work.
Christ, the Worker—King of Kings

and Worker of Workers—teach all
of us the lesson

—
“Blessed are the

poor in spirit—^for theirs is the King-
dom of heaven.”

Sacred Heart of Jesus, rule the
world

!

Thy Kingdom Come!
Let Social Justice reign

!

Five minute talk

PRAYER FOR EMPLOYERS

0 Christ, the Worker—open the
hearts—and enlighten the minds

—

of those who hire their fellow men
for pay.—Bring into their souls—^the
divine light of Your revelations.

—

Pour into the hearts—of just and
honest employers—a superabundance
of Your heavenly grace — that the
happiness of their lives—may spur
on the laggard—^to the joys of justice.
—Remind the powerful—^who rule
the lives of men—that they, too—are
but clay and spirit as the rest of men.
—Teach them that their souls—can
be tortured by the flames of Hell

—

even as the adulterer, the murderer

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and the blasphemer. — Make them
aware—that one day they, too—must
come face to face with Christ, the
Carpenter. Grant that they may see
the justice—of a living wage—decent
working hours—and human condi-
tions for those who toil.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, rule the
world

!

Let Social Justice reign

!

PRAYER FOR ATHEISTS

O' Christ, the Worker—have pity ’
on those, who crucify You anew.

—

Take from their hearts—the hammer
of hatred—and from their minds

—

the bloody spikes of spite and envy.

—

Say from the altar—as You said from
the Cross—“Father, forgive them

—

for they know not what they do.”

—

Teach us to know the vile malice

—

and the deep ingratitude of sin.

—

Grant that we may live our lives

—

that other men may say—“See how
those Christians love one another.”

—

Let the beauty of Your teachings

—

and the grandeur of Your Church—so
shine through us—that we may draw
all men—from ignorance to light

—

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from hate to love,—that there may
really be “One flock and One Shep-
herd.”

Sacred Heart of Christ the Worker,
rule the world!

Let Social Justice reign

!

PRAYER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

0 Mary, Mother of the Sacred
Heart, “remember—that never was it
known—that anyone who fled to your
protection—implored your help—or
sought your intercession—was left
unaided.” — Your children. Mother
Mary—wandering in a weary world
—need their mother’s care.—Pray for
us—sweet mother—that the spirit of
the little home of Nazareth — may
take possession of the world.—Fill
the hearts of fathers and mothers

—

sons and daughters—with the love
that filled your heart.—You are the
mother of all virtues—Mother Mary;
we, your children, beg for Social
Justice for the world.

Sacred Heart of Christ the Worker,
rule the world!
Mother of the Sacred Heart, hear

our prayer.
Let Social Justice reign

!

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BENEDICTION

0 Salutaris Hostia,
Qui coeli pandis ostium.
Bella premunt hostilia;
Da robur, fer auxilium.

Uni trinoque Domino
Sit sempiterna gloria,
Qui vitam sine termina,
Nobis donet in patria.

Tantum ergo Sacramentum,
Veneremur cernui;

Et antiquum documentum
Novo cedat ritui

;

Praestet fides supplementum,
Sensuum defectui.

Genitori, Genitoque,

Laus et jubilatio;
Salus, honor, virtus quoque

Sit et benedictio;

Procedenti ab utroque
Compar sit laudatio. Amen.

P. Panem de ccelo praestitisti eis.
Ch. Omne delectamentum in se

habentem.

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Oremus

Deus, qui nobis sub Sacramento
mirabili passionis tuae memoriam
reliquisti; tribue, quaesumus, ita nos
corporis et sanguinis tui sacra mys-
teria venerari ut redemptionis tuae
fructum in nobis jugiter sentiamus:
Qui vivis et regnas in saecula saecu-
lorum. Amen.

THE DIVINE PRAISES

Blessed be God.
Blessed be His holy Name.
Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and

true Man.
Blessed be the Name of Jesus.
Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart.
Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy

Sacrament of the Altar.
Blessed be the great Mother of God,
Mary most holy.

Blessed be her holy and Immaculate
Conception.

Blessed be the name of Mary, Virgin
and Mother.

Blessed be St. Joseph, her most chaste
spouse.

Blessed be God in His Angels and in
His Saints.

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