Franciscan University Presents “Faith and Human Work” With guest, Dr. Deborah Savage Excerpt from “The Eucharist and the Work of Human Hands” A talk given by Dr. Deborah Savage Archdiocesan Faith Formation Day Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis April...
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Franciscan University Presents “Faith and Human Work” With guest, Dr. Deborah Savage Excerpt from “The Eucharist and the Work of Human Hands” A talk given by Dr. Deborah Savage Archdiocesan Faith Formation Day Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis April 14, 2015 [John Paul II’s] argument begins with a fundamental distinction he makes between two dimensions of human work. The first, the objective dimension, is that which results from work in the external or material sense, either a product or a service, whether in the public or the private sphere. This is the dimension we most associate with working. It is what the customer buys, it is what we may or may not get paid to produce; it is the pizza or the lecture we deliver, the meal our family eats, the (reasonably) clean house. The second, the subjective dimension, and the primary concern of the encyclical, refers to the person performing the work, that is, the “subject” of work, who, by virtue of his or her very humanity, is
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