Sanctification of ordinary work.

Any honest work can be a place of encounter with God's creation, with God's grace and help to carry it out, and an occasion of love. Thus, any kind of work can be made holy. This is a radical departure from the views of the world, which create classes of workers (``blue'' and ``white'' collar, ``intellectual'' or ``manual'', etc.).

As a modern writer puts it: ``Before God, no occupation is in itself great or small. Everything gains the value of the Love with which it is done.'' [Esc87a, No. 487] This consideration also solves the problem of the ``pietistic'' conception of work that we described above (``only clerical jobs are holy''). Any work can be made holy.