Industriousness 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Remember It is true, Idleness Laborare Carry out the All devotion Without Hell is little duty that nothing little things is est which leads full of the of each work is small are little, moment: to sloth the orare. it is in the eyes talented, but to be do what you Is false. enemy impossible of God. but heaven faithful in To work ought of and put We must to have Do all that of the little things yourself love you do is something the is into what you energetic. fun. with love. great. are doing. . St. Jane de Chantal work St. Thomas Aquinas soul. St. Therese of Lisieux St. Jerome St. Josemaria St. Zita to pray. St. Benedict St. Benedict

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 When a man For work is not Let us Small is life's Obstacles? To finish only, for every We must not Sometimes they things Heroism labor; does his work man, a means of love God, be so may be present, you have to at decent livelihood, Soon comes the but at times diligently start them. work but it is the but close; insistent you just invent It seems for the sake is to means through with the Great the reward upon them out of a truism, which all those cowardice or but you so be manifold powers is,- of God, strength demanding love of comfort. often lack the found and faculties Endless repose. How cleverly it is not a simple in with which of our our rights Oft as thou bearest the devil makes decision... nature, training as in distraction “finishing” arms, With patience the those excuses And how and art have each discharging for not working but a Satan endowed the in the rod task. look plausible! rejoices dignity of the Thy spirit our thoroughness, human sweat He knows full in your St. Josemaria personality, find becometh obligations. well that sloth which ineffectiveness! of our their necessary A martyr to God. Pope Benedict XV is the mother pleases God. St. Josemaria expression. brow. of all vices. St. Barsanuphius Thomas a Kempis Pope Pius XII St. Vincent de Paul St. Josemaria 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 The principal The sweat and toil There are many We will lie We admire the trap which the We have a long I don’t know which work necessarily people, dearly down for Creator, not only involves in the present devil sets for way to go to how I could beloved, who think the young Never have managed condition of the such a long as the framer of that this alone is people is heaven, and as to write so human race, say heaven and earth sufficient for idleness. time after many books. present the Christian many good deeds . . . but also as with the possibility eternal life, that This is a fatal to God, You must have death that it the maker of tiny of sharing lovingly source of all evil. as we do, as many done it, Lord . . . they do no evil. Do not let there be “” is worthwhile creatures: ants, in the work that Christ Therefore, all who, Enough ; My God, you any doubt in your prayers as we gnats, flies . . . came to do . . . perchance, deceive mind that man is to keep made use of me, By enduring the toil make, and as So the mind that themselves with born to work, and standing a worthless of work in union with when he does not simply many good instrument is given to Christ Christ crucified for us, this false do so he is out of while we without the is equally assurance should his element and in say, thoughts as we think man in a way great danger of are alive. knowledge, earnest in small collaborates with the Son clearly understand offending God. “ in truth and hope talent or time to things as in great, of God for the redemption that the mere The chief thing is I am do all this. But, Let us of humanity. He shows avoidance of evil is to take the burden ” and charity, so unknown to me, knowing that an himself a true disciple of on one’s shoulders. ready. not enough for any work now; you were giving account must be Christ by carrying the As you press many paces do we Christian unless he forward, it soon one day we me all the help given even for cross in his turn every shakes down and Blessed Sebastain Valfre go heavenward. I needed. an idle word. day in the activity that does as much good the load is evenly shall rest. St. Anthony Mary Claret he is called to perform. as he can. distributed. Bl. Richard Rolle St. Jerome Bl. Agostina Pietrantoni John Paul II St. Caesarius of Arles St. John Bosco

25 26 27 28 29 30 31 We hold that He It is not enough Study. through labor When we contemplate to do good things, Labor is Study in offered to God who There is no Holy man is Our Lord we have a but we must do them earnest. associated with labors well, in imitation of our portion deeper understanding labor where If you are to Mary, the redemptive Christ our Lord, of work of of the obligation that as he lest we be salt and Jesus Christ, prays whom it was written one loves— light, you need Mother Who conferred an is ours to work well. We Bene omnia fecit. should make knowledge, eminent dignity on lifts his He did all things well. cannot pretend to or, if there is, capability. Most labor when at heart We ought, then, to this world Nazareth He sanctify badly done Or do you worked with His to God strive to do all things the labor Admirable, own hands. From work. We have to learn in the spirit of Christ; our rest and imagine that this there follows with that is, with itself an idle and for every man the to find God in our Pray perfection, with the not hope for lazy life will duty of working human occupations . . . his entitle you to faithfully and also circumstances, and is loved. For the right to work. Lumen Gentium hands. for the ends for the hereafter. receive infused which he performed St. Augustine knowledge? Gaudium et spes St. Bernard St. John Chrysostom Us his actions. St. Josemaria St. Vincent de Paul