Extracts from the Dux Spiritualis by the Venerable Louis de Ponte SJ
Another title or claim still more sweet is brought forward by the Apostle when writing to the Galatians: Because you are His sons, God hath sent the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying: Abba, Father [Gal. iv, 6].
As if to say: it is not so much to supply for your ignorance and infirmity, but because He has adopted you as His sons, that God in His infinite mercy has poured into your hearts the Spirit of His only-begotten Son, who is the Holy Ghost; the interior inspirations and impulses which proceed from His presence there cry out, that is, make you cry out and pray fervently to your Heavenly Father.
For all the works of God are perfect, and when He gives us the spirit of sons, He also gives us the spirit of prayer by which we ask for all we need.
.. .. .. it will excite us to pray with greater confidence saying:
Supreme Father, since in thy exceeding mercy Thou hast received me as Thy Child
Grant me also the gift of prayer
By which I may speak and treat with Thee as with my loving Father.
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