{"id":61787,"date":"2023-05-01T16:43:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T21:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=61787"},"modified":"2023-05-14T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T00:21:09","slug":"may-day-versus-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/01\/may-day-versus-labor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"May Day versus Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today the General Roman Calendar celebrates St Joseph the Worker as an Optional Memorial. The observance is marked with more or less solemnity in different places. But I have always wondered why it is celebrated on May 1 in the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even though I am currently ministering in Ireland, the land of my birth, I hope that US readers will accept my reflection as a naturalized US citizen who had spent two thirds of my adult life in the US and as a presbyter ordained (and incardinated) in a US Archdiocese.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Simply put, I have always thought that the observance of St. Joseph the Worker would be better celebrated in the US on Labor Day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newliturgicalmovement.org\/2021\/04\/the-feast-of-saint-joseph-worker.html#.ZFAtzC_MJAQ\">Pius XII introduced this observance<\/a> in 1955, May 1 had <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/May_Day\">different emphases <\/a>including Our Lady, St. Walpurga, as well as many other themes. However, since the late nineteenth century, May 1 has been observed as the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/International_Workers%27_Day\">International Workers\u2019 Day<\/a>. This civil observance had Marxist overtones in its origins, but today it is observed in most countries of the world. The Catholic liturgical observance is undoubtedly to counterbalance the Marxist origins of today&#8217;s International Workers&#8217; Day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, May 1 it is not observed in the US and there is no need for a Christian counterbalance on that day. In the US, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Labor_Day\">Labor Day<\/a> has a similar function.\u00a0 Therefore, I would propose that the US Church observe St. Joseph the Worker on Labor Day. Perhaps in certain parishes the May 1 modern liturgical observance is indeed popular (although I have never seen any evidence of it). But I would purpose that moving it to Labor Day would allow US Catholics to celebrate it better and would be a better opportunity for catechesis on the importance of work and the dignity and rights of workers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cover art: <em>Christ in the House of His Parents <\/em>(1849-1850) by John Everett Millais\u00a0from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christ_in_the_House_of_His_Parents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wikimedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the General Roman Calendar celebrates St Joseph the Worker as an Optional Memorial. The observance is marked with more or less solemnity in different places. But I have always wondered why it is celebrated on May 1 in the United States. 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