On prayer and the contemplative life

by Saint Aquinas Thomas

QUESTION LXXXIII

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