Since 15 May of the present year was the ninetieth anniversary of the publication by the great Pope of the "social question", Leo XIII, of the decisively important Encyclical which begins with the words Rerum Novarum, I wish to devote this document to human work and, even more, to man in the vast context of the reality of work. Human Work on the Ninetieth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum And this mark decides its interior characteristics in a sense it constitutes its very nature.ġ. Thus work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons. Only man is capable of work, and only man works, at the same time by work occupying his existence on earth. Work is one of the characteristics that distinguish man from the rest of creatures, whose activity for sustaining their lives cannot be called work. From the beginning therefore he is called to work. Man is made to be in the visible universe an image and likeness of God himself 2, and he is placed in it in order to subdue the earth 3.
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And work means any activity by man, whether manual or intellectual, whatever its nature or circumstances it means any human activity that can and must be recognized as work, in the midst of all the many activities of which man is capable and to which he is predisposed by his very nature, by virtue of humanity itself. THROUGH WORK man must earn his daily bread 1 and contribute to the continual advance of science and technology and, above all, to elevating unceasingly the cultural and moral level of the society within which he lives in community with those who belong to the same family. Venerable Brothers and Dear Sons and Daughters, On the ninetieth anniversary of Rerum Novarum
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