Repeated too often and too carelessly is the declaration that God came into this world, became a manual labourer, in order to choose what was lowest. That statement is inexact and much to be regretted. On the contrary, he came to teach us how great a thing it is to use our arms, our physical powers in the accomplishing of lowly tasks, tasks in his eyes so sacred that he did not consider it beneath his dignity as God to take them upon himself. By becoming members of the working class, Jesus and Joseph canonized work.
