SAINTLY ADVICE VS. THAT OF OUR FOUNDERING FATHERS - I.E., TODAY'S BADMINISTRATION. 1. The motto of St. Benedict, the founder of western monasticism back in the 400s was "Ora et Labora," Prayer and Work. 2. Clare of Assisi, canonized Saint Clare in 1255, wrote as part of the Rule for the religious order she founded, "My ladies will earn their bread by the sweat of their brows," or somethng near to that. 3. St. Paul, writing to the Thessalonians, said, "... nor did we eat food received free from anyone. On the contrary, in toil and drudgery, night and day we worked, so as not to burden any of you. ... when we were with you we instructed you that if anyone was unwilling to work, neither should that one eat." This is a representative list of a multitude of quite excellent people, held in some very large quarters to be saints, all linking the notions of work and prayer as necessary to leading a proper life. It is quite dissimilar to the decrees of today's foundering fathers, who proscribe prayer and encourage being fed by the sweat of others' brows. Wonder why our country is disintegrating?