Extracts from the Dux Spiritualis by the Venerable Louis de Ponte SJ
From what has been said we may conclude that no one ought to deem himself excluded from receiving the gift of prayer.
Since we are all indigent beggars on account of our ignorance and infirmity, and are all sons of God by nature, because we are made in His image and likeness; and further, because he has put it in the power of us all to become his children by grace: so, all are capable of receiving this gift, which is offered by the Heavenly Father to all: neither would He have commanded or counselled us to pray unless He were willing to give us the Spirit by which we ought to pray.
....no one is excluded from the Spirit of Grace, neither will God refuse to anyone the spirit of prayer.
For the true nature of prayer is nothing else than a supernatural habit of the virtue, or virtues, which, joined to the gifts of the Holy Ghost and fortified by ordinary grace which we receive from heaven, assist us to pray as often as we will.
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