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Vocal Prayer
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said indulgences, when so applicable, to the souls in
purgatory, who will be relieved thereby and will not
fail to intercede for us in our wants.
It would be well to join, to a certain extent, mental
prayer with our vocal prayers, for the merit of the latter
would be thereby greatly increased. We may do so in
this wise. During the recitation of our vocal prayers
we pause at short intervals to reflect either on their
meaning or on some supernatural truth; or, without
at all pausing, we reflect thereon while actually pronouncing
the prayers with our lip. The Rosary is
the most common and readily understood example of
this manner of praying. While we are reciting the
Our Father and the Hail Marys of each decade of the
rosary, we meditate or reflect on some mystery connected
with the life of Jesus Christ or of His Messed Mother.
It is also useful, in using the prayers of our prayerbook,
to read them slowly and deliberately, making in
the meantime practical reflections on their contents,
or pausing from time to time to meditate a little and
apply the words of the prayers to our own wants. If
we accustom ourselves to recite our vocal prayers in
this way, we shall not only make them our own and
pray well, but we shall also gradually acquire the habit
of making mental prayer, which tends to unite us more
closely to God, and, through the practical imitation of
our divine Saviour's virtues, to render us conformable
to Him.
"The Lord," says the Royal Prophet, "is nigh to all
them that call upon Him in truth; He will do the will
of them that fear Him; He will hear their prayer, and
will save them" (Ps, cxliv. 18, 19).
We have the formal and solemn promise of Our Lord
Jesus Christ that God will hear our prayers and gmt
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