🐦‍⬛🍞🍷✝️ ORA ET LABORA ✝️🍷🍞🐦‍⬛

Dropping March 20 — and then the very next day is St. Benedict’s feast (March 21), so yes… the timing is basically monastic-level providence.

This song is for the calm, unbothered saint who helped shape Western monasticism by doing something wildly offensive to chaos: he made a Rule. Not hype. Not vibes. A way of life.

And the stories are legendary:

They tried to poison him… twice.

A poisoned cup cracks clean after the sign of the Cross.

Poisoned bread? A raven flies off with it.

No theatrics—just steady holiness and the kind of order the enemy can’t stand.

The hook says it best: knees go down, sleeves rolled up.

Prayer isn’t an escape from reality—Benedict shows it’s the way reality gets rebuilt, one hour at a time.

Little personal note: my wife and I are Benedictine oblates, so this one’s close to home. And if you want to support faithful Benedictine life right here in Kansas, go check out the monks at KansasMonks.org.

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