Chapter 2 Section 6.1 – Of the necessity of prayer - the need for Grace

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

Chapter 2 Section 6.1 – Of the necessity of prayer

 

Has not Christ our Lord said that we ought always to pray and never faint? [St Luke xviii, 1].

For if prayer faints also, and we lose the very life of grace, then all blessings of which we have spoken faint also, and we lose the very life of grace which depends on them.

As a body without a soul is but a disfigured corpse, foetid and the pray of worms: so, says S. Chrysostom, [Lib de orando Deum] will the soul which despises prayer die to the life of grace and become disfigured by vie, foetid by bad example, and devoured by remorse of conscience