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says He, 'I will pow out,upon the house of David, and
upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the swl of grace and
of payer' (Zach. xii. IO), a spirit of grace that wil
urge them to pray without ceasing, and a spirit of
prayer that will incessantly draw down on them fresh
graces; a double spirit that will keep up a constant
communication between our heavenly Father and His
children. It is this prayer of the heart to which the
apostle St. Paul alludes when he exhorts the faithful
to 'pay &thud ceasing' (I Ths. v. 17), and when
he assures them that he continually remembered them
in hi prayers.
"It is just as easy and quite as natural to the heart
to pray without ceasing, as to love always. We can
always love God, though we are not always thinking
of Him nor always telling Him we love Him. It
suffices that we should be resolved at all times, not
only never to do anything contrary to this love, but
ready to give to God, on every occasion, proof of this
by actions inspired by grace. Is it not thus that a
mother loves her children, a wife her husband, a friend
his friend? The cherished object never comes to our
mind without calling forth a feeling of love; we would
like never to lose sight of it, and if the mind is at times
drawn off by other objects, the heart never is. Just
so is it with prayer. We have the merit to be always
praying when we wish so to be, when at every moment
we are ready to follow the movements of grace. It
would be quite a mistake to imagine that the avocations
of life are an obstacle to this prayer. On the contrary,
they are, or at least may be, an exercise of it, and there
is a prayer that is correctly called the prayer of action.
Every action done for God, as being His will, and in the
m y in which God wills,is a prayer, better even than
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