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Pray and Work

By Philos · published September 27, 2026 · Still · 6 slides, at your own pace · Edited Sep 28

A 6th-century monastic rule that treated ordinary work as a form of devotion, and what that might mean for how we see our own.

"Ora et labora." The Benedictine motto. Prayer and labor were treated as the same kind of act.

Gloucester Cathedral Great Cloister. Photo by Philip Pankhurst.

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