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  1  Intr,   0     |         expressly with the life of prayer. This P. B‡-ez was very
  2  Intr,   0     |        teach her daughters to love prayer, the most effective means
  3  Intr,   0     |          on to its main subject -- prayer -- treats of three essentials
  4  Intr,   0     |          directly to the themes of prayer and contemplation. It begins
  5  Intr,   0     |       counsels for the practice of prayer, using once more the figures
  6  Intr,   0     |     understanding, shows how vocal prayer may be combined with mental,
  7  Intr,   0     |         who suffer from aridity in prayer to picture Jesus as within
  8  Intr,   0     |        Chaps. 27-42) -- the Lord's Prayer. These CHAPTERs, in fact,
  9  Intr,   0     |           state of the soul in the Prayer of Quiet, which forms one
 10  Intr,   0     |            the excellences of that Prayer and of its spiritual value.
 11  Intr,   0     |            and end every period of prayer with self-examination. While
 12  Intr,   0     |           in the last words of the Prayer to preserve her daughters,
 13  Pref,   0     | thirty-first, which deals with the Prayer of Quiet, a subject that
 14  Prol          |         write certain things about prayer, which it seems I may be
 15  Prol,   0     |          Lord has not taught me in prayer.~
 16  Prol,   0     |         certain matters concerning prayer. It may be that my confessor
 17  Unic,   1     |            by busying ourselves in prayer for those who are defenders
 18  Unic,   2     |   enclosure, and also as an aid to prayer and devotion, and because
 19  Unic,   2     |           bound to offer continual prayer for persons who give them
 20  Unic,   3     |           Ends with an exclamatory prayer.~
 21  Unic,   3     |         own souls. Yet what better prayer could there be than this?
 22  Unic,   3     |         should be saved through my prayer? And how much less does
 23  Unic,   4     |     commands; for, as you know, if prayer is to be genuine it must
 24  Unic,   4     |    reinforced with these things -- prayer cannot be accompanied by
 25  Unic,   4     |                        It is about prayer that you have asked me to
 26  Unic,   4     |       interior life -- that is, of prayer -- I shall speak of certain
 27  Unic,   4     |           to walk along the way of prayer must of necessity practise.
 28  Unic,   4     |        solitude is a great help to prayer. Since prayer must be the
 29  Unic,   4     |        great help to prayer. Since prayer must be the foundation on
 30  Unic,   4     |            to spend their lives in prayer to have any attachment save
 31  Unic,   4     |       unless they have no love for prayer and for striving after perfection
 32  Unic, App     |         persons who are practising prayer find that their confessor
 33  Unic, App     |  conversation with him, even about prayer and about God, should be
 34  Unic,   5     |     favours the Lord grants you in prayer, the more needful is it
 35  Unic,   5     |           This is a firm basis for prayer; but without this strong
 36  Unic,   6     |          to being taught by Him in prayer, or whom His Majesty wishes
 37  Unic,   6     |        either by instruction or by prayer. Any other kind of affection
 38  Unic,   7     |        there is no better way than prayer of revealing these hidden
 39  Unic,   7     |       betake yourselves to earnest prayer. The same applies to the
 40  Unic,  11     |           sure that where there is prayer and charity among you, and
 41  Unic,  12     |        religious and a real man of prayer and aspires to the enjoyment
 42  Unic,  12     |            very careful about your prayer, you will soon find yourselves
 43  Unic,  12     |            Him, and let your whole prayer be that He may come to your
 44  Unic,  12     |     religious or a person given to prayer; for, if anyone prays with
 45  Unic,  12     |  consolations which God bestows in prayer, it is always well that
 46  Unic,  12     |            may have spent years in prayer, or rather in meditation (
 47  Unic,  12     |            meditation (for perfect prayer eventually destroys all
 48  Unic,  12     |            enjoy the real fruit of prayer.~
 49  Unic,  16     |            are content with mental prayer. Explains how it is sometimes
 50  Unic,  16     |           about the first steps in prayer; although God did not lead
 51  Unic,  16     |         them, continue your mental prayer all your life; but in that
 52  Unic,  16     |            now explain what mental prayer is, as some of you will
 53  Unic,  16     |           to a very high degree of prayer. If we do not give ourselves
 54  Unic,  16     |          if He leaves us in mental prayer and from time to time visits
 55  Unic,  16     |       explain the nature of mental prayer and contemplation. It may
 56  Unic,  17     |          beginning my treatment of prayer, but there still remains
 57  Unic,  17     |          known by all who practise prayer. How can anyone who is truly
 58  Unic,  17     |          us in this house practise prayer, we are all perforce to
 59  Unic,  17     |     discouraged, then, and give up prayer or cease doing what the
 60  Unic,  17     |           hours and hours in vocal prayer, but from mental prayer
 61  Unic,  17     |            prayer, but from mental prayer can get no help at all;
 62  Unic,  17     | contemplation and mental and vocal prayer and tending the sick and
 63  Unic,  18     |         orders. So practise mental prayer, sisters; or, if any of
 64  Unic,  18     |          you cannot do that, vocal prayer, reading and colloquies
 65  Unic,  18     |           not neglect the hours of prayer which are observed by all
 66  Unic,  18     |          number of consolations in prayer, or with raptures, visions
 67  Unic,  19     |            19 - Begins to treat of prayer. Addresses souls who cannot
 68  Unic,  19     |         and for souls who practise prayer and can be a great deal
 69  Unic,  19     |        paid heed to anything about prayer that you learned from me.
 70  Unic,  19     |         and the end of the time of prayer.59 There is no need to tell
 71  Unic,  19     |           is capable of practising prayer in this way, and has already
 72  Unic,  19     |         tears which come from true prayer -- is a good gift from the
 73  Unic,  19     |           should not say that this prayer I have been describing,
 74  Unic,  19     |           must shorten our time of prayer, however much joy it gives
 75  Unic,  20     |         consolation on the road of prayer. Counsels the sisters to
 76  Unic,  20     |       specially indulgenced:74 one prayer in itself will bring her
 77  Unic,  20     |           attracted to the life of prayer, try to remove from them
 78  Unic,  20     |          and that your business is prayer. Do not say to yourselves: "
 79  Unic,  21     |           out upon the practice of prayer with firm resolution and
 80  Unic,  21     |           great thing to base your prayer on prayers which were uttered
 81  Unic,  21     |           for any other systems of prayer or for any other books at
 82  Unic,  21     |            need special methods of prayer; some people have such ingenious
 83  Unic,  21     |         rules for each part of our prayer -- beginning, middle and
 84  Unic,  21     |            other road than that of prayer.~
 85  Unic,  21     |           practise mental or vocal prayer; but I do say that you yourselves
 86  Unic,  21     |       yourselves require both. For prayer is the duty of religious.
 87  Unic,  21     |         God forbid that the way of prayer should be a way of danger!
 88  Unic,  21     |          fall of some who practise prayer.~
 89  Unic,  21     |    distractions and not practising prayer. As against these multitudes
 90  Unic,  21     |         are a few who did practise prayer and whom the devil has been
 91  Unic,  21     |      people say there is danger in prayer, this servant of God, by
 92  Unic,  21     |         should practise only vocal prayer, ask whether your mind and
 93  Unic,  21     |           bound to practise mental prayer, and even contemplation,
 94  Unic,  22     |     Explains the meaning of mental prayer.~
 95  Unic,  22     |          you are practising mental prayer has nothing to do with keeping
 96  Unic,  22     |         combining mental and vocal prayer. When people tell you that
 97  Unic,  22     |           when you say that mental prayer is unnecessary? Do you understand
 98  Unic,  22     |            cannot know what mental prayer is, or how vocal prayers
 99  Unic,  22     |          speak of mental and vocal prayer together, daughters, so
100  Unic,  22     |        would be engaging in mental prayer for a very long time. For
101  Unic,  22     |   daughters, is to practise mental prayer. If you wish to learn to
102  Unic,  22     |        same time to practise vocal prayer, well and good. But do not,
103  Unic,  22     |          understanding what mental prayer is. I think I have made
104  Unic,  23     |            set out upon the way of prayer. Repeats how necessary it
105  Unic,  24     |           24 - Describes how vocal prayer may be practised with perfection
106  Unic,  24     |     closely allied it is to mental prayer.~
107  Unic,  24     |         down their minds to mental prayer or make a meditation. We
108  Unic,  24     |            contemplation or mental prayer.~
109  Unic,  24     |            you must practise vocal prayer, for it is right that you
110  Unic,  24     |      Master is that taught us this prayer.~
111  Unic,  24     |          Master Who taught us this prayer, and Who loves us so much
112  Unic,  24     |          Majesty teaches that this prayer must be made when we are
113  Unic,  24     |            that He has taught this prayer to each one of us individually,
114  Unic,  24     |         but are content with vocal prayer. For there are impatient
115  Unic,  24     |    incapable of anything but vocal prayer and do not know how to do
116  Unic,  24     |           have described is mental prayer; but I assure you that I
117  Unic,  24     |          distinguish it from vocal prayer faithfully recited with
118  Unic,  25     |            when it practises vocal prayer perfectly. Shows how God
119  Unic,  25     |      derived from practising vocal prayer perfectly, I must tell you
120  Unic,  25     |    Paternoster or some other vocal prayer, it is quite possible for
121  Unic,  25     |        different it is from mental prayer, which I have already described,
122  Unic,  25     |            to serve Him, is mental prayer. Do not think of it as one
123  Unic,  25     |        petition you like, is vocal prayer. But think how harsh your
124  Unic,  25     |       order. In these two kinds of prayer, with God's help, we may
125  Unic,  25     |         experience of supernatural prayer should procure the book
126  Unic,  26     |            those who are beginning prayer.~
127  Unic,  26     |            now return to our vocal prayer, so that we may learn to
128  Unic,  26     |          Master Who taught you the prayer that you are about to say?
129  Unic,  26     |            Him, not using forms of prayer, but words issuing from
130  Unic,  27     |        have come at the end of the prayer? Here, at the very beginning,
131  Unic,  27     |        while we are repeating this prayer with our lips, to stop trying
132  Unic,  28     |        Describes the nature of the Prayer of Recollection and sets
133  Unic,  28     |         one prays in this way, the prayer may be only vocal, but the
134  Unic,  28     |         much sooner; and this is a prayer which brings with it many
135  Unic,  28     |            it, and to grant it the Prayer of Quiet, than in any other
136  Unic,  28     |            to open the eyes during prayer than to close them. The
137  Unic,  29     |         methods for achieving this Prayer of Recollection. Says what
138  Unic,  29     |        doing so. It is a method of prayer which establishes habits
139  Unic,  29     |    satisfaction and comfort out of prayer, and it is because I have
140  Unic,  30     |   understanding what we ask for in prayer. Treats of these words in
141  Unic,  30     |                Applies them to the Prayer of Quiet, and begins the
142  Unic,  30     |      petition in our good Master's prayer, in which He begins to entreat
143  Unic,  30     |           my Lord, have ended this prayer in a single sentence, by
144  Unic,  30     |         who experience it call the Prayer of Quiet; but, as I have
145  Unic,  30     |        said, I am discussing vocal prayer here, and anyone ignorant
146  Unic,  30     |          people who practise vocal prayer in the manner already described
147  Unic,  30     |        practise anything but vocal prayer but who kept to this and
148  Unic,  30     |           all practise such mental prayer as that. She would say a
149  Unic,  30     |        know how to practise mental prayer, and that she could not
150  Unic,  30     |           and envied her her vocal prayer. If this story is true --
151  Unic,  31     |      Explains what is meant by the Prayer of Quiet. Gives several
152  Unic,  31     |        still want to describe this Prayer of Quiet to you, in the
153  Unic,  31     |         you. It is in this kind of prayer, as I have said, that the
154  Unic,  31     |          Occasionally, during this Prayer of Quiet, God grants the
155  Unic,  31     |          such satisfaction in this Prayer of Quiet the will must be
156  Unic,  31     |           can no more control this prayer than we can make the day
157  Unic,  31     |          result that this state of prayer will be all effort and no
158  Unic,  31     |        when I was in this state of prayer, and which seems to me very
159  Unic,  31     |                      This state of prayer is different from that in
160  Unic,  31     |         experience of this kind of prayer will understand quite well
161  Unic,  31     |       having reached this state of prayer, which is a quiet, deep
162  Unic,  31     |           in this sublime state of prayer, which, as I have already
163  Unic,  31     |           brought to this state of prayer, it would seem that the
164  Unic,  31     |            careful how we say this prayer, the Paternoster, and all
165  Unic,  31     |       everyone who experiences the Prayer of Quiet must perforce be
166  Unic,  31     |            and brings them to this Prayer of Quiet, and yet they deafen
167  Unic,  31     |         hands, by giving them this Prayer of Quiet and this inward
168  Unic,  32     |         treats those who make this prayer from their hearts? Ask His
169  Unic,  34     |        mean that at these hours of prayer you are dealing with more
170  Unic,  35     |        subject with an exclamatory prayer to the Eternal Father.~
171  Unic,  35     |      although, when writing of the Prayer of Recollection, I spoke
172  Unic,  35     |          for Thou hast granted His prayer to Thee to leave Him with
173  Unic,  36     |       others. Thus, continuing the prayer which He is teaching us,
174  Unic,  36     |      favours granted by God in the prayer that I have called perfect
175  Unic,  36     |        think much of that person's prayer.130 For wrongs have no effect
176  Unic,  36     |            Himself in such sublime prayer as this, nor does it care
177  Unic,  36(130)|         added: "You need not . . . prayer" in his edition, since when
178  Unic,  36     |          has granted this grace of prayer as far as the stage of union.
179  Unic,  36     |          it is not strengthened by prayer, you may take it that this
180  Unic,  36     |            and of giving them this prayer, or contemplation, which
181  Unic,  37     |   Describes the excellence of this prayer called the Paternoster,
182  Unic,  37     |     perfection of this evangelical prayer is something for which we
183  Unic,  37     |      taught us the whole method of prayer and of high contemplation,
184  Unic,  37     |          very beginnings of mental prayer, to Quiet and Union. With
185  Unic,  37     |        could write a great book on prayer if only I knew how to express
186  Unic,  37     |       occurred to me that, as this prayer was meant to be a general
187  Unic,  37     |      taught us a sublime method of prayer, and begged that, in this
188  Unic,  37     |    supernatural gifts, such as the Prayer of Quiet, perfect contemplation
189  Unic,  37     |                    We may say this prayer only once, and yet in such
190  Unic,  38     |         contemplation and practise prayer -- are always ready for
191  Unic,  38     |      entices to spend more time in prayer and thus to make greater
192  Unic,  38     |            and keep near to Him in prayer, and the Lord is faithful.
193  Unic,  38     |          other people who practise prayer. I say "with the lips" because,
194  Unic,  39     |            and give up our private prayer, because the devil suggests
195  Unic,  39     |         and to end every period of prayer with self-examination. If
196  Unic,  39     |         not walk along the road of prayer! People get a greater shock
197  Unic,  39     |        many of them in the life of prayer -- and some people get most
198  Unic,  40     |         him fearful of engaging in prayer, because they think that
199  Unic,  40     |         way who began the habit of prayer and in a short time became
200  Unic,  40     |        safe, but aid her with more prayer, for no one can be safe
201  Unic,  41     |          time, to great heights of prayer. It is not recognizable,
202  Unic,  41     |            when at the end of this prayer He said these words to His
203  Unic,  42     |          comes at the end of every prayer, I understand that the Lord
204  Unic,  42     |      favours which they receive in prayer are from God. Let those
205  Unic,  42     |       meant by perfection in vocal prayer, in which we consider and
206  Unic,  42     |      consider and know to Whom the prayer is being made, Who is making
207  Unic,  42     |          to practise any but vocal prayer, do not be discouraged,
208  Unic,  42     |      explain to you anything about prayer which you cannot understand.
209  Unic,  42     |           can deprive you of vocal prayer or make you say the Paternoster
210  Unic,  42     |        advises you to give up your prayer, take no notice of him.
211  Unic,  42     |            repeat this evangelical prayer. May He be for ever blessed,
212  Unic,  42     |            If they understood this prayer, they could derive a great
213  Unic,  42     |        secrets of this evangelical prayer, which has been a great