What is work? Why is it so hard? What defines success? Can we serve both God and mammon? How do we rightly order our vocations so that first things come first? And does that ordering look different for men and women?

Talking about these things and more in the attic, this week on Visitation Sessions.

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Show Notes:

Church Documents

* Rerum Novarum (On the Condition of Labor)—Pope Leo XIII, 1891

* Quadragesimo Anno (After Forty Years)—Pope Pius XI, 1931

* Mater et Magistra (Christianity and Social Progress)—St. John XXIII, 1961

* Populorum Progressio (On the Development of Peoples)—Blessed Paul VI, 1967

* Laborem Exercens (On Human Work)—St. John Paul II, 1981

* Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (On Social Concern)—St. John Paul II, 1987

* Centesimus Annus (The Hundredth Year)—St. John Paul II, 1991

Shop Craft as Soul Craft by Matthew Crawford

Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross

Saint Katharine Drexel

The Book of Tobit

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