Extracts from the Dux Spiritualis by the Venerable Louis de Ponte SJ
Chapter 4.3a How to prepare diligently to receive this gift of prayer - ordinary grace
There is another kind of diligence which we can and ought to employ in order to obtain this special grace of prayer, and that is to make good use of the ordinary Grace offered by God to all; for he who is faithful in little is worthy to be raised by God to greater.
For the Lord Himself has said: He that hath, to him shall be given, and he shall abound [St Matthew xiii, 12];
if he make good use of the first grace, he shall be rewarded by obtaining others more precious.
In general we may say that for the most part God requires us to do our own part in co-operating with His Grace, and so dispose ourselves to obtain its increase.
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