Ora et labora (album)

Ora et labora (Pray and work) is an album by Croatian singer Marko Perković Thompson.

The album featured heavy Christian and Catholic themes, as well as Croatian patriotic elements, like most of Thompson's.

The title of the album serves as the core theme that is reiterated in both the first ("Sokolov krik") and last ("Put u raj") song.

Thompson is also critical of so-called "pro-Yugoslavian communist sentiments" in modern-day Croatia, even referencing Stjepan Radić's famous speech on November 24, 1918 about the Croatian people being led "into the fog like geese.

"[2] The album received instant commercial success, topping charts in Croatia as well as other countries such as Germany, Sweden and Austria.