Sanctify Your Daily Life: How to Transform Work Into a Source of Strength, Holiness, and Joy

by Stefan Wyszyński

Whether you're a monk or a manager, whether you change tires or change diapers, you can transform your work into a source of strength, holiness, and even joy — and these pages show you how. Written by St. John Paul II's teacher, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, they show you how to change any workplace into a workshop for sanctity — for yourself and for those around you. Regardless of the work you do, these pages will make your attitude better, your work easier, and your life holier. No longer will you have to struggle for holiness despite all the sorrow, stress, and trouble at work!

Cardinal Wyszynski will teach you:

How to avoid burn-out — at home or at the office How to pray in work, instead of merely at work. Five steps you can take How work can help you discover (and overcome) hidden character flaws Your failures on the job. What you should learn from each one of them How to develop inner peace — even amid the din of phones, kids, and machines Five steps to help you offer all of your daily tasks to God Six virtues work instills in you — when you have the right attitude! Why it's wrong to think that God made work a punishment for sin Office politics and family stresses — how to defuse them before they do harm The real reason copiers jam and dishwashers quit (knowing why will help you) How to make even the worst job bearable How to hang in there in hard times: perseverance, and how it can be yours Three things that cause discouragement at work — and how to eliminate them God's plan for the work you do, no matter how humble it may be Plus: dozens of ways to make your attitude better, your work easier, and your life holier

Genres: Catholic, Christianity, Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1998

About the author

Stefan Wyszyński was a Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the bishop of Lublin from 1946 to 1948, archbishop of Warsaw and archbishop of Gniezno from 1948 to 1981. Appointed cardinal on 12 January 1953 by Pope Pius XII, he assumed the title of Primate of Poland. Stefan Wyszyński was often called the Primate of the Millennium.

Reviews

[Emily Zlatos]

I enjoyed this book and wish it came with a workbook! It was not what I was expecting, but it was a thought provoking survey of work, work’s intention, and how to align your work to its proper end. It’s not a manual, so it requires you to put some thought into how to apply it to your own life, but the benefit of that is that it can be applied to any work. 👌 It is a little spark of hope to a weary worker.

[Richard Hannay]

Extraordinary book. For what it says, for how it says it, for the fine mind it let's through.

[J.]

This book is very helpful to remind the reader of the value and purpose of work. Certainly, this book is a reminder of how much we have fallen from even this writing from the prior century as we live in a world that does not resemble at all what the author wanted to communicate. The book not only provides speculative knowledge on the ideal, but maintains its Catholic Realism in the face of the falleness of the human condition. That realism translates into a discussion on the practical virtues that ought to be cultivated in and through our work to help us redeem the times while taken in work and the need of a fuller understanding of an authentic notion of rest and the cultivation of the interior life.

[Jo-Ann Gozaloff]

Excellent book. I wish I had read it sooner. It has helped me immensely in the understanding of work and the burden that I sometimes feel at my job.

[Freeda]

Brilliant, thorough, understandable . . . I can't say enough good things about this book that oozes wisdom from every page and explains, exhaustively and plainly, everything there is to be known on the subject of work.

[Senator]

A very soothing book to reinvigorate the Catholic life, within and outer.

[Adrian Tee]

A clear, concise and badly needed explanation of what living a holy life in the ordinary actually means. Practical and life changing.

[Ar Rainey]

An incredible book that makes Catholic Social Doctrine accessible to the common person and inspires great sanctification. Deserves a reread