Extracts from the Dux Spiritualis by the Venerable Louis de Ponte SJ
... in these words the Apostle [Paul] points out two reasons why, for our part, we cannot pray as we ought: infirmity and ignorance.
For our infirmity, he says, is so great that we are not sufficient to think anything of ourselves as of ourselves [2 Corinthians iii, 5]. For this reason we cannot by our own strength so much think a good thought, which is the beginning of prayer; nor without the Holy Ghost say the name of the Lord Jesus [cf 1 Corinthians xii, 3], which is the name in virtue of which we pray; nor can we overcome the other impediments and hindrances to prayer.
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