More than 1,500 members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3, their families, and other labor representatives woke up early Sunday to participate in the annual Construction Mass at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe welcome in a particular way the members of IBEW Local 3. We are grateful to all of you for the work you do for the working families of our state,\u201d principal celebrant Bishop Edmund J. Whalen, vicar general of the Archdiocese of New York, said at the beginning of his homily. Bishop Whalen recognized New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli as one of the special guests in attendance at the June 7 Mass.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bishop Whalen connected the celebration of Corpus Christi with the Mass\u2019 theme. \u201cIt\u2019s what the Eucharist is about: how the Eucharist nourishes us and brings us all together in one family, praying around the one table of the Lord,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
He pointed out that the National Eucharistic Revival, launched on Corpus Christi Sunday in 2022, was beginning to bear fruit. \u201cWe asked God for a renewal of our faith, and our faith is only possible, and is lived best, in the Eucharist. So it\u2019s not rocket science that God actually did it. It is through the grace of the Eucharist that we\u2019re seeing this remarkable revival. But why? Because God\u2019s grace is moving people, and they know they\u2019re hungry for something.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
As is his custom, Bishop Whalen asked attendees to speak to the Lord Jesus about three things: where they hunger for his presence, what it is about the Eucharist that sustains them, and a genuine act of thanksgiving for the gift of himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Attendees processed to the annual communion breakfast\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Mass preceded the Catholic Council of IBEW Local 3\u2019s annual communion breakfast, held this year at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel. Hundreds of attendees of the Mass, including Bishop Whalen, processed from St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral to the hotel on Manhattan\u2019s Seventh Avenue, led by a pipe and drum band.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Among the Mass\u2019 concelebrants and procession participants was Father Brian Jordan, OFM, who has served as chaplain to the building trades for more than 20 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe link between Church and labor is very important and very sacred,\u201d Fr. Jordan told The Good Newsroom during the procession. \u201cThe Catholic Church, as Pope Leo XIII said, the economy should serve the people, the people do not serve the economy. So Church and labor go hand in hand. That goes back to the beginning of Catholic Social Teaching in 1891. And we continue that wonderful tradition 135 years later.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
James Mansfield, a member of IBEW Local 3 who carried the Catholic Council\u2019s banner during the procession, told The Good Newsroom why he thought his faith and work go together. \u201cWe try to keep the same values that we have with our faith at work as well. Especially since, as the priest said before, Jesus worked with his hands. So we try to incorporate a lot of those same qualities into what we do at work.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 1,500 members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 3, their families, and other labor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[116089,118321,118322,118323,118324,8466,17124,1494,118325,155,157,156,118326,118327,118328,118329,118330,118331],"class_list":["post-331137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-archdiocese-of-new-york","tag-auxiliary-bishop-edmund-j-whalen","tag-bishop-edmund-j-whalen","tag-bishop-whalen","tag-building-trades","tag-catholic","tag-catholic-church","tag-construction","tag-construction-work","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-hard-hat-mass","tag-international-brotherhood-of-electrical-workers","tag-local-731","tag-local-79","tag-st-patricks-cathedral","tag-whalen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}