In helping to organize and plan our community's celebration of Labor Day, I've found the following prayer to be particularly apt, given the state of affairs in our nation and our world. May each of you be blessed with fruitful labor, and restorative leisure in due measure, this day and throughout the weeks and months ahead.
O God, who through human labor
never cease to perfect and govern the vast work of creation,
listen to the supplications of your people
and grant that all men and women
may find work that befits their dignity,
joins them more closely to one another
and enables them to serve their neighbor.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
– Collect Prayer from Mass for the Sanctification of Human Labor
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