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Fr. Hardon Archives - All My Liberty - Chapter 10: Vocal and Mental Prayer
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All My Liberty
Chapter 10: Vocal and Mental Prayer
Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
It would be a mistake to suppose that the theory and practice of prayer found
in the Spiritual Exercises refer only to the time of retreat. They have universal
application and contain the refined wisdom of one of the Church’s greatest mystics
on the subject of the soul’s communication with God, from the lowliest type
of vocal prayer to the highest form of contemplation.
Some of the rules and directives like the “Remote and Proximate Preparation”
are useful for any kind of prayer at any time. Others like the familiar triad
of prelude, points and colloquy are more pertinent to meditation. Still others,
described in the Exercises as “The Three Methods of Prayer,” are a supplement
to ordinary meditation and though primarily intended to help beginners in the
spiritual life, they can be profitably used by anyone else.
Preparation for Prayer
Since formal prayer is a supernatural activity which requires the grace of
God, and grace depends in large measure on our dispositions, the better these
dispositions as we begin to pray the more assurance there is that our prayer
will be successful. St. Ignatius repeatedly directs the one giving the Exercises
to attend to this preparation, which guarantees to make prayer not only externally
satisfactory but spiritually efficacious. He says more about the remote preparation
and less about the proximate because he assumes that the "
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