Honoring human labor

Daily Reading for September 6 • The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

The ordinary workmen will come to the son of Joseph singing:

“Blessed be your coming,

O master of workers everywhere.

The imprint of your labor is seen in the ark,

And in the fashioning of the tabernacle

Of the congregation that was for a time only!

Our whole craft praises you, who are our eternal glory.

Make for us a yoke that is light, even easy,

for us to bear.

Establish that measure in us

in which there can be no falseness.”

From Hymns on the Nativity 6 by Ephrem the Syrian, quoted in Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: New Testament II, Mark, edited by Thomas C. Oden and Christopher A. Hall (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1998).

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