OUR LADY AT PRAYER
4. Your Own Prayer.
In front of this sublime model, reflect:
a) how necessary prayer is for you. Your passions, your sins, your imperfections and miseries ceaselessly remind you of this necessity;
b) what fruit would you reap if you were a soul of prayer. Your communication with God, your relishing the things of God, your perfection and sanctity depend on your prayer;
c) how do you pray and how ought you to pray in the presence of such a model. Consider your want of fervor, your inattention, your want of composure, your tiredness and sloth, your excuses to shorten , or perhaps drop, your prayer when you most need it;
d) see how you say your vocal prayers such as the Little Office, the Rosary and the rest.
Implore a great spirit of prayer. Through the prayers of holy souls entreat the Lord to grant the world many children of Mary.
In front of this sublime model, reflect:
a) how necessary prayer is for you. Your passions, your sins, your imperfections and miseries ceaselessly remind you of this necessity;
b) what fruit would you reap if you were a soul of prayer. Your communication with God, your relishing the things of God, your perfection and sanctity depend on your prayer;
c) how do you pray and how ought you to pray in the presence of such a model. Consider your want of fervor, your inattention, your want of composure, your tiredness and sloth, your excuses to shorten , or perhaps drop, your prayer when you most need it;
d) see how you say your vocal prayers such as the Little Office, the Rosary and the rest.
Implore a great spirit of prayer. Through the prayers of holy souls entreat the Lord to grant the world many children of Mary.
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