Pray. Work. Give. ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Ora et labora… “Pray and work.”

This is the motto of the Rule of St. Benedict, written in 516 by the famous founder of Western monasticism, Benedict of Nursia. For fifteen centuries Benedictine monks have lived their lives according to this motto, performing manual labor and praying to God. Many laypeople have similarly taken this motto to heart, forming lay Benedictine societies or simply adhering to “the rule” in their daily lives.

“St. Benedict found the world, physical and social, in ruins,” observed the great churchman John Henry Newman, “and his mission was to restore it… quietly, patiently, gradually.”

At The Imaginative Conservative, we similarly seek to preserve the good, the true, and the beautiful of the Western Tradition amidst the disorder and disorientation of the modern world. Through the daily publication of serious essays that reflect the best of conservative thought, past and present, we seek to restore intellectual order and slowly rebuild the philosophical foundation of the West. Our journal has been doing this for eleven years now, and boasts 8,900 essays (by some 1,500 authors) that have been read more than 30 million times.

We could not have reached so many without the support of loyal readers like you. And so we would add to Benedict’s Rule the idea of giving to further the work of restoring a world in ruins: “Pray, work, give.”

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