Extracts from the Dux Spiritualis by the Venerable Louis
de Ponte SJ
Chapter 2.1.1 – How God is glorified by prayer
Can anything be of greater excellence or utility
than prayer?
By its means 2 most important graces are received:
1.
The Glorification of God in His creatures
2.
And that of thy own soul
Both by the glory to which it is predestined and the graces
it shall obtain from Divine Providence.
Prayer:
Eternal God, glorify me with this gift of prayer, that I
may glorify Thee as Thou dost deserve; then shall I be glorified in Thee and
Thou in me by those gifts which Thou has decreed for me before I was made and
before the creation of the world.
Sometimes I shall shed abundance of tears, when I realise
how little glory I give to God compared with what I ought, and how His name is
blasphemed among the nations; at other times I will exult with burning charity
to see God glorified in just souls; sometimes, with great purity of intention I
shall strive to hallow His name in all I think, say or do.
O most holy prayer, true mother of sanctity, whose Father
is God Himself!
Prayer:
Most Holy Father, since Thou desirest me to be holy,
grant me the gift of prayer, which has such power to make me holy: never,
never, take from me the power to pray lest I lose my sanctity with it.
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