Prayer is necessary, it's a mandate. Moreover, it is the first duty of man and above all, of a Christian.
It is necessary to pray to worship; it is also necessary to pray to beg, because the Lord is not only the Master, He is also the dispenser of all goods.
Without his help you can't do anything; with his help you can do everything, even what is impossible to human forces.
Without His divine help, you cannot accomplish any work of salvation, you cannot merit any supernatural reward, you cannot make heaven. And what do I say? You can't aspire to it, not even think.
With the help of God, on the contrary, everything will be easy for you, as easy as a bird to stay in the air.
Prayer has been called the breathing of the soul, and rightly so: no figure could give a more accurate and faithful idea of it.
My son, when you breathe, in that chest shuttle opens to fresh air alternatively, you exhale the vapors and inhale the revitalizing gas in which all earthly life is submerged. Likewise, by prayer, your soul breathes out its miseries: sorrows, needs, sins; then it draws to it the grace that revives it, the blessing that comforts it, the mercy that forgives it.
Pray, then, often; prayer is the support point of the helpless and the help of those who lack all human help.
Pray! Prayer is the swift and sure arrow that opens the heart to God, and that brings forth from that divine fountain the bleeding rain of grace.
Pray! The young man, or the old man who does not pray, in the absence of that fertile dew, will dry up like the tender log that the water of heaven does not come to liven. It will yield neither flowers nor fruit. What do I say? He who does not pray is already dead according to God.
Pray! Prayer will open the heavens over your life: it will pour upon you the light that will illuminate your steps; prayer is the food that will nourish your virtue, the heavenly rain that will fertilize your works, the holy oil that will mitigate your pains and heal your wounds.
If you plead with the Lord in the midst of violent temptation, he will save you from sin, for a praying soul cannot fully indulge in evil.
If you beg Him in the lowering of distress or desperate sadness, He will send from above a ray of light to warm you, encourage you and comfort you. If you beg Him in repentance, He will send you peace and serenity of heart, with grace and certainty of forgiveness.
Finally, if you beg her in the anguish of sickness or poverty, like Tobias, old and ruined, she will send you the mysterious angel of health and well-being recaptured.
One way or another, He will always hear you, have no doubt, for He has promised: "Ask, it says in the Holy Book, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you!" He who asks receives, he who seeks finds, and it opens to him who knocks."
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Prayer is necessary, it's a mandate. Moreover,
it is the first duty of man and above all, of a Christian.
It is necessary to pray to worship; it is also necessary to pray to beg, because the Lord is not only the Master, He is also the dispenser of all goods.
Without his help you can't do anything; with his help you can do everything, even what is impossible to human forces.
Without His divine help, you cannot accomplish any work of salvation, you cannot merit any supernatural reward, you cannot make heaven. And what do I say? You can't aspire to it, not even think.
With the help of God, on the contrary, everything will be easy for you, as easy as a bird to stay in the air.
Prayer has been called the breathing of the soul, and rightly so: no figure could give a more accurate and faithful idea of it.
My son, when you breathe, in that chest shuttle opens to fresh air alternatively, you exhale the vapors and inhale the revitalizing gas in which all earthly life is submerged. Likewise, by prayer, your soul breathes out its miseries: sorrows, needs, sins; then it draws to it the grace that revives it, the blessing that comforts it, the mercy that forgives it.
Pray, then, often; prayer is the support point of the helpless and the help of those who lack all human help.
Pray! Prayer is the swift and sure arrow that opens the heart to God, and that brings forth from that divine fountain the bleeding rain of grace.
Pray! The young man, or the old man who does not pray, in the absence of that fertile dew, will dry up like the tender log that the water of heaven does not come to liven. It will yield neither flowers nor fruit. What do I say? He who does not pray is already dead according to God.
Pray! Prayer will open the heavens over your life: it will pour upon you the light that will illuminate your steps; prayer is the food that will nourish your virtue, the heavenly rain that will fertilize your works, the holy oil that will mitigate your pains and heal your wounds.
If you plead with the Lord in the midst of violent temptation, he will save you from sin, for a praying soul cannot fully indulge in evil.
If you beg Him in the lowering of distress or desperate sadness, He will send from above a ray of light to warm you, encourage you and comfort you.
If you beg Him in repentance, He will send you peace and serenity of heart, with grace and certainty of forgiveness.
Finally, if you beg her in the anguish of sickness or poverty, like Tobias, old and ruined, she will send you the mysterious angel of health and well-being recaptured.
One way or another, He will always hear you, have no doubt, for He has promised: "Ask, it says in the Holy Book, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you!" He who asks receives, he who seeks finds, and it opens to him who knocks."
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