Faith and the Anvil: Reclaiming the Catholic Guild Tradition
The medieval craft guild was never merely an economic association; it was a sanctified brotherhood of labor, and it offered security, stability and friendship. Long before the modern separation of faith and work, the stonemasons, carpenters, weavers, leathercrafters, and metalworkers of Christendom understood that every strike of the hammer and every pull of the needle could be offered as an act of worship. Ora et labora. In Medieval times, to enter a trade was to enter a spiritual...
