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152 Continual Prayer
death, because the invitation of our gentle Saviour:
"Come to me, all you that labor and are burdened
and I will refresh you" has not reached them as yet!
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80. -Continual Praper
PROPOS of the Apostleship of Prayer, a few words
JZ on continual prayer will not be out of place. The
Gospel says: "We must always pray and not faint,"
and St. Paul exhorts us "to pray without ceasing."
What does this mean? The Gospel seems to enjoin
continual payer. How can we pray without ceasing?
We can not be always engaged in either vocal or meniul
prayer. Father Grou, S.J., has a chapter on this
subject in his book "How To Pray." He says:
"The words of the Gospel ought to have opener!
our eyes to see the necessity of another kind of prayer,
which is of such a nature that every Christian can
apply himself to it continually. And what is this
prayer? It is the essential, the most absolutely necessary
part of prayer, that which alone draws God's
attention on us, that which gives value to all the rest;
in one word, it is the prayer of the heart. This can
be made without any interruption. No other can.
So it is evidently this that is of precept, and there is
no need of making any restriction of which the words
do not seem to admit. It is the prayer of the heart,
unknown to the Jews, for which Jesus Christ upbraids
them, and that God through His prophet foretold
should be the privilege of the New hw: day,'
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