Prayer for Labor Day
Loving Father: On this weekend, when we rest from our usual labors, we pray for all who shoulder the tasks of human labor—in the marketplace, in factories and offices, in the professions, and in family living.
We thank you, Lord, for the gift and opportunity of work. May our work efforts always be pure of heart, for the good of others and the glory of your holy name.
We lift up to you all who long for just employment and those who work to defend the rights and needs of workers everywhere.
May those of us who are now retired remember that we still make a valuable contribution to our Church and to our world by our prayers, our volunteering, and our deeds of charity.
May our working and our resting give praise to you until the day we share together in eternal rest with the faithful departed in your Kingdom, as you live and reign Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
Today we celebrate a Labor Day mass at Holy Savior Catholic Church in Clinton, Mississippi. I thank everyone who will come to celebrate Labor Day with us today. We will pray the above prayer at the end of mass. I adapted this prayer from a prayer found on the website from the Archdiocese of Detroit. I find such great resources from that Archdiocese. Have a blessed Labor Day everyone.
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