OF PRAYER

OF PRAYER

I. Is Prayer an Act of the Appetitive Powers?
   Cardinal Cajetan, On Prayer based on Friendship

II. Is it Fitting to Pray?
   Cardinal Cajetan, On Prayer as a True Cause
   S. Augustine, On the Sermon on the Mount, II. iii. 14
   On the Gift of Perseverance, vii. 15

III. Is Prayer an Act of the Virtue of Religion?
   Cardinal Cajetan, On the Humility of Prayer
   S. Augustine, On Psalm cii. 10
   Of the Gift of Perseverance, xvi. 39

IV. Ought We to Pray to God Alone?
   S. Augustine, Sermon, cxxvii. 2

V. Should We in our Prayers ask for anything Definite from God?
   S. Augustine, De Catechizandis Rudibus, xxv. 47
   Confessions, X. xxix.
   Confessions, XI. ii. 2

VI. Ought We in our Prayers to ask for Temporal Things from God?
   S. Augustine, On Psalm xxxvii. 10
   Confessions, I. xx. 2
   Confessions, IX. iv. 12
   S. Thomas is miraculously relieved from Toothache
   S. Augustine, Sermon, lxxx. 7
   Sermon, cccliv. 8

VII. Ought We to Pray for Others?

VIII. Ought We to Pray for our Enemies?
   S. Augustine, Sermon, xv., on Psalm xxv. 8

IX. On the Seven Petitions of the Lord's Prayer
   Cardinal Cajetan, On the Grouping of these Petitions
   S. Augustine, Confessions, VII. x. 2
   Sermon, lvii., on S. Matt. vi. 7
   Sermon, lvi. 9, on S. Matt. vi.
   Sermon, lvi. 8, on S. Matt. vi.
   Of the City of God, xix. 27
   S. Thomas's Rhythm, Adoro Te Devote

X. Is Prayer Peculiar to Rational Creatures?

XI. Do the Saints in Heaven Pray for Us?
   Cardinal Cajetan, On the Saints in Limbo

XII. Should Prayer be Vocal?
   Cardinal Cajetan, On the Conditions of Vocal Prayer
   S. Augustine, Confessions, IX. iv. 8
   Confessions, X. xxxiii. 50
   On Psalm cxviii., Sermon xxix. 1

XIII. Must Prayer necessarily be Attentive?
   Cardinal Cajetan, On the Varieties of Attention at Prayer
   S. Augustine, On Psalm lxxxv. 7
   On Psalm cxlv. 1
   S. Thomas, On Distractions, Com. on 1 Cor. xiv. 14

XIV. Should our Prayers be Long?

XV. Is Prayer Meritorious?
   S. Augustine, On Psalm xxvi.
   Ep. cxxx. ad Probam.

XVI. Do Sinners gain Anything from God by their Prayers?

XVII. Can We rightly term "Supplications," "Prayers," "Intercessions," and "Thanksgivings," parts of Prayer?
   Cardinal Cajetan, On the Prayer of the Consecration
   S. Augustine, Of Divers Questions, iv.