Why Another Newsletter? Why This One?

We’re missing out. All of us.

The world of work is often presented (and experienced) as a place of obligation, drudgery, and duty. Those hoping to rescue work from this depressing state are quick to emphasize the importance of vocation, service, talents, and creativity.

But here’s the thing: work can be all of those things at once. And yet, that still isn’t the full picture.

St. John Paul II challenged us over forty years ago to rediscover work as something more—not just a path of service to others, but as a primary path where we meet Our Lord.

Work — like everything else in human life — gets transformed by the Gospel. In fact, there is what we might call a spirituality of work.

But for so many of us, in so many aspects of our work, we’re missing out on what is being offered to us, not only in our work, but in working with Our Lord.

The Venturi is a publication of Harmel Academy of the Trades, a Catholic community of prayer, work, and study in Grand Rapids, MI. Harmel forms young men in a spirituality of work through training in the skilled trades, spiritual formation, and the rigorous intellectual study of the Gospel of Work.

This publication is our attempt to share some of what we’ve learned about the spirituality of work with working guys of all sorts and in all places.

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