Monday 15 February 2021

Chapter 2 – Intro prayer - a summary of the excellence and utility of prayer

 

Extracts from the Dux Spiritualis by the Venerable Louis de Ponte SJ

Chapter 2 – a summary of the excellence and utility of prayer

 

Prayer:

 

Supreme Father, what thanks do we not owe Thee for that Thou hast raised us to great a dignity, allowing us to appear in Thy presence as sons, conversing with Thee on earth as the angels do in Heaven.

Grant us so to correspond with this dignity that we may be pleasing in Thy sight and by its means may obtain the glorious gifts Thou dost hold out to us.

Amen

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