Labor Day Mass Saturday

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

This Saturday the Archdiocese of Washington will continue its longtime tradition of holding a Labor Day Mass. Celebrated by The Most Reverend Donald Wuerl (r), Archbishop of Washington, at the Cathedral of St. Matthew, the special vigil mass will be attended by both national and local labor and workers’ rights leaders, including AFL-CIO past president John Sweeney and his wife Maureen. "Dignity of work and the rights of workers is central to Catholic social teaching, which sees work as participation in God’s creation," said Anthony Bostick of the Archdiocese of Washington, one of the organizers of the mass. "This mass highlights how work is a way we all participate in God's ongoing act of creation. It is also an opportunity to celebrate the dignity of the worker, the historic relationship between the labor movement and the Catholic Church in the struggle for societal recognition of that dignity and to renew those ties," said Gerald Shea, Assistant to the President of the AFL-CIO and a member of the Archdiocese of Washington’s Committee on the Dignity of Work. - Mackenzie Baris, DC Jobs with Justice; photo courtesy Knights of Columbus