Wednesday 24 February 2021

Chapter 2 Section 6 – Of the necessity of prayer - to protect us from falling into sin

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

Chapter 2 Section 6 – Of the necessity of prayer

 

From all that has been said it may be inferred how necessary prayer is to preserve the life of the soul and deliver us from the evils and enemies that would destroy it.

St Thomas [S. Th. II-II, Q. lxxxiii, art 3, ad 2] teaches that it is a precept as much natural as divine, and that if we do not pray when we feel ourselves in danger of falling into sin, we incur fresh guilt: that is, when we see ourselves about to fall unless God hold out his sustaining hand.


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