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Summary
- Eleven short prayers follow a son’s job search: where to look, his résumé, an interview or hiring test, the people who decide, self-doubt, rejection, worry, finding the right job, money while he waits, being hired and his first weeks at work.
- A parent’s own prayer asks for patience and for the sense to know when to help and when to step back.
- The 1928 Book of Common Prayer has a prayer “For Every Man in his Work” (p. 44); its catechism teaches the duty “to learn and labour truly to earn mine own living” (p. 289).
- The Orthodox First Hour includes Psalm 90, which ends with the prayer “prosper thou the work of our hands upon us.”
- Russian Orthodox Christians often ask Saint Spyridon of Trimythous to pray for help with work, a popular devotion; Catholics ask Saint Joseph, whose feast as Joseph the Worker Pius XII set on 1 May in 1955. Most Protestants pray to God alone.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Genesis 22:14; Psalm 5:12; 37:5; 90:17; Proverbs 3:6; 16:3; 21:1; 22:29; Isaiah 40:31; Jeremiah 29:11; Matthew 5:16; 13:55; Romans 5:3–4; Galatians 6:9; Philippians 4:6–7, 13, 19; Colossians 3:23; 1 Thessalonians 5:18; James 1:5; 1 Peter 5:7). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Prayers, “For Every Man in his Work,” p. 44; Offices of Instruction, “my duty towards my Neighbour,” p. 289. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. The First Hour, pp. 38–39; The Lesser Blessing of Water, p. 476. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
- Pétridès, Sophrone. “Cyprus.” The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1908. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04589a.htm
- “Чудесная помощь святителя Спиридона Тримифунтского в наши дни” (The miraculous help of St. Spyridon of Trimythous in our days). Pravoslavie.ru. https://pravoslavie.ru/66959.html
- Franciscan Media. “Saint Joseph the Worker.” Saint of the Day. https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint-joseph-the-worker/
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