From the Dux Spiritualis by the Venerable Louis de Ponte SJ
Section 1 – page 162
Thou may make for thyself a kind of litany out of the
BEING of God, His Trinity, goodness and sanctity: His wisdom, omnipotence,
charity, and mercy: His fortitude, patience, longanimity, and liberality; his
prudence and all His other perfections.
Glorify and praise Him for all these things, and invite
all creatures who share in these blessings to extol the magnificence and bounty
from which they proceed.
Let us now give an example of how this prayer may be practised:
I confess, my God, that Thou art infinite in being,
immense, incomprehensible and ineffable, the principle of all things that have
being and source of all created perfection: from whom they have their being and
their perfections and without whom they would lose all.
I rejoice in Thy infinity: I extol Thy eternity; I glorify
Thee for Thy immensity; let all Thy creatures praise Thee for Thy incomprehensible
bounty, from which they draw all the good that they have in themselves.
Ineffable Godhead, how can I praise Thee for Thy
unspeakable perfections? Since Lord Thou hast given me all that I have, and of
myself I am and [page 164] have nothing, perfect Thy grace in me, that it may
be perfect as Thou art perfect.
From what has been said it is easy to understand that
this mode of prayer is the most excellent of all; for its source and end are
none other than that heroic act of the love of God which consists in wishing
Him well, and which is proper to the unitive way.
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