After 175 years, Treatise on Prayer by St Alphonsus Liguori is Back in Print

June 16, 2009 - 3:03 PDT

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POTOSI, WI (JUNE 16, 2009) - After 175 years of being out of print, we are excited to bring back, Treatise on Prayer by St Alphonsus Liguori. I don't believe I can describe this book any better than St Alphonsus Liguori so here is what the Saint himself says:

I have already published several spiritual works. But of all these works, I do not consider one more useful than this little book which treats of prayer as a secure and necessary means of obtaining salvation and all the graces necessary for it. Were it in my power, I would publish as many copies of this little work, as there are Christians on earth, and would give to each a copy, that each might be convinced of the absolute necessity of prayer for salvation.

I speak in this manner of this little treatise, because on the one hand, I see the absolute necessity of prayer so strongly inculcated in every page of Holy Writ, and in the writings of all the fathers, and on the other, I perceive that very few Christians make use of that great means of Salvation. What grieves me most, is, that though there is no practice of which preachers, confessors, or spiritual writers, should insist with greater warmth, or in stronger terms, than on that of prayer; still, I know, that preachers seldom recommend it to their auditors, or confessors to their penitents, and that the spiritual books most currently circulated amongst the people, do not sufficiently detail its advantages or inculcate its necessity. They indeed suggest many excellent means of preserving sanctifying grace, such as to avoid the occasion of sin, to frequent the sacraments, to resist temptations, to hear the word of God, to meditate on the truths of eternity, and other means; all of which are, I admit, most useful. But of what use, I ask, are sermons, meditations, and all the means proposed by masters of spiritual life, without prayer, when Jesus Christ has declared that He will grant His grace only to those who ask it. 'Ask,' He says, 'and you shall receive.' In God's ordinary providence, all our meditations, and good purposes, and promises, will be fruitless without prayer. If we do not pray, we will be for ever unfaithful to all the inspirations of God's Grace, and to all our own promises. Because, to do actual good, to overcome temptation, and to practice virtue; in a word, to observe all the divine precepts, the light which God pours into our souls, and the reflections and resolutions which we ourselves make, are insufficient. The actual assistance of God is moreover necessary, and, as we will immediately see, the Almighty grants this actual assistance to those only who pray, and persevere in prayer. The lights we receive, and our own considerations and good purposes enable us actually to pray, when tempted to transgress the divine law, and by prayer, to obtain from God actual help, by which we will avoid sin. But if, in temptation, we do not pray, we shall be lost.

I thought it right, dear reader, to say so much, by way of preface, on the advantages and necessity of prayer, that you may return thanks to God for giving you, by means of this little book, occasion to reflect more seriously on the importance of that great means of salvation, by which alone, all adults who are saved, ordinarily obtain the gift of final perseverance. I therefore, exhort you, to be grateful to God for this favour. The gift of prayer is an exceedingly great grace. I hope, dear reader, that after having read this little book, you will not neglect, for the future, to seek God's assistance by prayer, whenever you are tempted to offend Him. If, in your past life, you have fallen into numberless grievous sins, you may be assured, that this was the result of inattention to prayer, and of not imploring the divine aid to repel the temptations by which you were assailed. I pray you to read again and again, this little work, not because it is my production, but because it is a means of salvation which God puts into your hands, giving you thereby a special proof that He wishes you to be saved. And after having perused it, I beseech you to induce as many as possible of your friends, and of the poor with whom you converse, to read it attentively. Let us now commence in the name of the Lord.

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