Merciful Father: On this weekend, when we rest from our work and 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, in our schools, in our government, and in family living.
We thank you, Lord, for the gift and the opportunity of work. We ask that you bless our efforts and that you bless the dignity of our work, that our work be for the good of our brothers and sisters and for the glory of your 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 always remember that we still make a valuable contribution to our Church and our world by our prayers and deeds of charity.
We ask for a special blessings for our first responders and for all who serve in the military, that you bless their work and their sacrifices, that you keep them safe in their service to our community and our country.
May our working and our resting all give praise to you until the day we share together in eternal rest with all our departed in your Kingdom as you live and reign Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
(Adapted from the Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit).
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