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Workplace enthronement

Where it is possible, place an image of the Sacred Heart in your workplace as a sign that your labor is His.

Why this practice

The social kingship of Christ is not limited to the home. In the early twentieth century, many Catholic businesses and workshops openly enthroned the Sacred Heart in their places of work. It was a public claim: "This labor, too, is His."

Today this is harder; secular workplaces often do not permit it. But where it is possible — in a Catholic-owned business, in a religious institution, in one's own office or workshop — the practice retains its meaning.

How to begin

1Discern carefully what is possible and appropriate in your workplace. A small image on a desk is usually possible; a public enthronement may not be.
2If full enthronement is not possible, place a small Sacred Heart image, a holy card, or a discreet medal somewhere on your person or in your workspace.
3Make your work an offering — daily, in the morning, to the Heart of Jesus.
4Treat colleagues and customers as belonging to His Heart. This is the real enthronement of the workplace.

Christ does not seek only your hours of prayer. He seeks the hours of your labor too.

— Traditional

A prayer for this practice

Sacred Heart of Jesus, the hours I spend at work are Thine no less than the hours of prayer. Reign here also. Let me labor in Thy presence, and treat those I work alongside as Thy own.

Amen.

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