Work, Toil, Fatigue

Jesus works in Joseph's workshop. Villeréal - Church Notre-Dame - Stained glass.

Since the Original Sin, fatigue and work have entered the world together with sin and death. In the work of Maria Valtorta, Jesus teaches to sanctify work, transforming it into an essential means of salvation and sanctification of the Soul.

In "The Gospel as it was revealed to me"

• The love of work.
• "Boy, know that when one is tired from an honest work, women no longer attract. One only loves the honest bed of one's wife." said Peter to Judas.
• The honesty of work is part of the love of the Neighbor.
• Work, whatever it may be, is never humiliating.
• Let your work be constant, trusting, peaceful, without sudden starts and sudden stops.
• But if there is no fatigue, there is no merit, and there is little profit, because one makes few conquests and confines oneself to those who are already in justice.
• To always work for virtue is allowed, it is even a duty. To work without stopping for gain, no. Only those who do not know that there is a God to be honored on his day can do so. To work in silence is a merit that everyone should learn from the bees, for it is in silence that holy things are made holy.