Chapter 2: Why We Should Pray
"Divine grace, that is, God's help, is absolutely necessary for us in all that concerns our salvation. To be saved, we are required to keep the Commandments, but this we can do only with the assistance of divine grace; and to obtain it, it behooves us to pray to God for it. The Council of Trent, adopting the saying of St. Augustine, says: "God in commanding us to do what we are not able to accomplish of ourselves, admonishes us to do all we can of ourselves and to pray to Him for help to do what is beyond our power, and when we so pray, He imparts to us the grace to accomplish it." This, together with what has already been said in III, shows us the absolute necessity of the prayer of petition, as the prayer or supplication for God's help is usually called. Wherefore we are strictly obliged to pray for God's assistance in all that pertains to our salvation, and as we shall see further on, we should do so in our temporal needs, though under certain conditions. As we daily need the divine assistance in both spiritual and temporal wants, it behooves us to pray daily, and even many times daily to repeat : "I am needy and poor; O God, help me" (Ps. 69. 6)."
Source:
"Prayer: Its Necessity, Its Power, Its Conditions" by Fr. Ferreol Girardey
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