[1] Pray and work (“ora et labora”) is a rule attributed to St Benedict of Nursia (480-547). John Paul II called it the address calling for the liberation from the bondage of consumerism. At 1500th anniversary of St Benedict’s birthday (21March 1980) when The Pope was speaking in the Abbey at Monte Cassino he proposed (with reference to Gregory the Great’s dialogues) the broadened Benedictine rule: “Pray, work and don’t be sad”.