Sweat of Your Brow Winter 1996

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All You Who Labor: Work and the Sanctification of Daily Life, by Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski (Sophia Institute Press, 800-888-9344, 1995), 191 pp., $16.95.

How many times have we read a book of great spiritual wisdom only to discover with callow astonishment that the same book is "also very practical"? But why should it not be? Who ever told us that "practical wisdom" is no kin to revelation? Probably the same folks who told us we can lead fruitful, virtuous lives without religion; that the Good is within our grasp without God's imposing his lofty, impractical version. In All You Who Labor, Cardinal Wyszynski reunites the orphan of practical wisdom with its spiritual parent in a way that you don't usually see in Wall Street bestsellers. So toss out your Dale Carnegie books and save the thirty bucks you were going to spend on the latest Steven Covey manifesto: if these fellows write anything truly useful about work, they must have read Wyszynski.

Both in his life and written work, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, Roman Catholic Primate of Poland for thirty-two years, demonstrated the seamless interweave of the temporal and supernatural realms. Throughout his long and illustrious career as a spiritual leader, Wyszynski was steeped in the political and civic affairs of his country. As a seminary teacher in the 1930s he was involved in the Christian trade-movement; during the German occupation he served as chaplain to the underground Polish Home Army; and from the time he was elected Cardinal Primate in 1949 (shortly after the Communist takeover) until his death in 1981 he was among the world's preeminent and most intrepid foes of Communism. Imprisoned for three years for his refusal to keep silent in the face of the persecution of ...

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