Labor
We adore you, oh Christ, and we praise you, for by the wood you worked we have been saved.
Our Savior worked in a woodshop, not a cubicle.
Christ worked for 18 years on the wood by which he would redeem the world. Every nail Christ drove was a meditation on the ones that would pierce his hands. Our Savior, the Son of God, was a homeschooled carpenter who pounded nails, not a computer keyboard.
Men in the San Damiano House of Formation Year work 3 days a week in a job not provided by the College, and which is not a part of the program. Men in the House of Formation work to pay their own way and learn as apprentice through on-the-job training.