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Narag, Jhoanna Steffany G.3LM

RELEVANCE OF THE BENEDICTINE CORE VALUES ORA ET LABORA 

“Prayer and work” is the best combination to success. Being a Bedan

has taught me to work hard and still put God first in everything. Ora et

Labora (aka Prayer and work) is a Benedictine value which was instilled to

us Bedans from our very first stay in school simply means, prayer and work

as road to success.

Many people became successful but we do not actually see or notice

what is behind every success they are having especially to topnotch

Bedans in different fields and expertise. Do you think that they could get on

top without their weapons? Hard work, resources, friends, family are not

the only things in the list. You may be forgetting the number 1 on the list;

PRAYER.

In school, we start our classroom and non-classroom activities with

prayer and end those also with prayer. Since we are a catholic school, we

are trained to this kind of routine and value such in honor of the founders or

our patron saints where the name of our institution was based.

This is very important value because it actually reminds us that a God

is there above us whom we should thank and praise for always being with

us, for his guidance, protection, enlightenment and for being there with us

all in every ups and downs, for every challenge we face, for the unending

work and tasks we have. We Bedans embraced this value and always don’t

forget to call God in every endeavors, success and failures.

In the workplace, having the Ora et Labora” gave us a lot of

confidence and self assurance that we can handle everything that are to be

assigned to us, for the things that may be unfamiliar to us, and for the new

things we learn everyday or in general, to actually surpass this On-The-

Job Training smoothly and productively. I learned that the value is not

always praying for asking something but most importantly is praying for

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appreciation and thanksgiving for every good thing that happens to me and

for all the graces and blessings that are yet to come.

In life, being a person of prayer and work  is one of the most important

or even can be the most important value one can have. We may besuccessful, we may have everything but be reminded that nothing in the

world is permanent; it is only God who is always there which proves the

context of forever. That we must always be thankful for everything that we

have, that we must always conjoin things we do with prayer because it is

only when we seek help from the Father that we actually are being

enlightened and assured that everything goes well.