how to sanctify work

It may seem complicated, but in reality it is very simple – a simplicity that does not mean it is easy: “Add a supernatural motive to your ordinary work and you will have sanctified it” (The Way, no. 359). This motive that sanctifies work is not a simple pious aspect independent of the work itself. Rather it is a question of why and for what one is working, as a conscious final goal that decisively influences both the carrying out of the work and its material and formal result. Hence “an essential part of the endeavor – the sanctification of ordinary work – that God has entrusted to us is to carry out as well as possible the work itself, also with human perfection, fulfilling very well all of one’s professional and social obligations” (Letter 24, no. 18).

The supernatural motive at the root of the sanctification of work is love: “It is well to remember that the dignity of work is based on Love.

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Why and for what are we working?

If we do well, even if nobody sees..

We do it

1. Order in work

Of little things..

Of order in desktop..

2. Caring for other colleagues

- doing work and help others as well

- you will feel more fulfilled

3. Caring for those outside our work

- not to be late because of work 

- taking care of family, friends

The dignity of work is Love

This is why mankind shouldn’t limit itself to material production. Work is born of love; it is a manifestation of love and is directed toward love”

It is not only a question of working for God, but at the same time and necessarily it is the work of God.

- we are his hands 

https://opusdei.org/en-sg/article/letter-from-the-prelate-10-october-2024/