Extracts from the Dux Spiritualis by the Venerable Louis
de Ponte SJ
Chapter 3 Section 1– Of wrestling with God in prayer
Page 45 - .. .. fervent prayer is nothing else than a
kind of wrestling of our spirit with God to induce Him to hear us and come to
our assistance.
We bring against Him all the claims and arguments we can
think of to force Him, as it were, to grant what we ask; His charity is so
infinite that when He sees us engaged in other conflicts and grievously
afflicted, He seems to invite us to enter into this conflict with Himself and
to wish to be overcome.
For He greatly delights in being vanquished by prayer:
from this friendly conflict we may learn what strength His grace will impart to
overcome those enemies who fight against us in deadly earnest.
O depth of the Divine mercy!
O invincible power of prayer!
Let Thy infinite mercies praise Thee, my God, for the
virtue Thou hast bestowed on prayer to vanquish the fiercest and most powerful
enemies.
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