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 1 14|   kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting" (Matth. xvii.
 2 14|      averted only by means of prayer and penance. ~
 3 15|       let us have recourse to prayer. We know through faith how
 4 15| humble, trustful, persevering prayer. To no other pious work
 5 15|    such solemn promises as to prayer: "Ask and it shall be given
 6 16|   could be more worthy of our prayer, and more in keeping with
 7 16|     God living and true? Such prayer bears already in itself
 8 16|        for in the very act of prayer a man unites himself with
 9 16| things; joined with others in prayer, he recognizes, that not
10 17|    earth is not the Church in prayer! For centuries without interruption,
11 17|     which is the Church. Thus prayer of itself assures the presence
12 18|              18. In addition, prayer will remove the fundamental
13 18|       give the proper time to prayer, there is no doubt that
14 19|       he joins the precept of prayer to holy desires for the
15 19|     not themselves? And it is prayer precisely, that, according
16 19|      bring the gift of peace; prayer that is addressed to the
17 19|     is the Father of all men; prayer that is the common expression
18 20|      peoples; men who turn in prayer to the divine Majesty, will
19 22|                    22. But to prayer we must also join penance,
20 22|    weapons of spiritual life: prayer and penance. By that sacred
21 28|                           28. Prayer, then, and penance are the
22 30| Brethren, for such a union of prayer and reparation, than the
23 32|        32. Let this spirit of prayer and reparation be maintained
24 33|       of mortification and of prayer. Let the faithful abstain