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Dear friends 
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I find that the best way to talk to God is to use the heart. This does not preclude, however, a use of the prayers of our wise brethren in Heaven. While they sojourned on this particular front in the War, their souls left us some of the greatest prayers in history. These pieces of holy poetry addressed to God show us how to pray! Here’s one from St. Thomas, a good patron and a kind man: in debate, analysis, lecture, essay, article, and word.
You are strongly encouraged to speak to God, using this prayer, before study. When about to read the Bible, Church history, or some document of the Fathers, please do pray this. Any other ideas for such prayers from Liguori, de Sales, Loyola, and other studious men?
This is from EWTN’s English translation of Pope Pius XI’s encyclical “studiorum ducem”, which put Aquinas to the forefront of seminary education in 1923.
Prayer of St. Thomas
ewtn.com/library/encyc/p11studi.htm
*Ineffable Creator, Who out of the treasures of Thy wisdom hast appointed three hierarchies of Angels and set them in admirable order high above the heavens and hast disposed the divers portions of the universe in such marvelous array, Thou Who art called the True Source of Light and super-eminent Principle of Wisdom, be pleased to cast a beam of Thy radiance upon the darkness of my mind and dispel from me the double darkness of sin and ignorance in which I have been born.
Thou Who makest eloquent the tongues of little children, fashion my words and pour upon my lips the grace of Thy benediction. Grant me penetration to understand, capacity to retain, method and facility in study, subtlety in interpretation and abundant grace of expression.
Order the beginning, direct the progress and perfect the achievement of my work, Thou who art true God and Man and livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen.*
This is from the actual Latin encyclical:
vatican.va/holy_father/pi…-ducem_lt.html
*Creator ineffabilis, qui de thesauris sapientiae tuae tres Angelorum hierarchias designasti, et eas super caelum empyreum miro ordine collocasti, atgne universi partes elegantissime distribuisti: Tu, inquam, qui verus Fons Luminis et Sapientiae diceris, ac supereminens Principium, infundere digneris super intellectus mei tenebras, tuae radium claritatis, duplices, in quibus natus sum, a me removens tenebras, peccatum scilicet, et ignorantiam.
Tu, qui linguas infantium facis disertas, linguam meam erudias atque in labiis meis gratiam tuae benedictionis infundas. Da mihi intelligendi acumen, retinendi capacitatem, addiscendi modum et facilitatem, interpretandi subtilitatem, loquendi gratiam copiosam.
Ingressum instruas, progressum dirigas, egressum compleas: Tu qui es verus Deus et homo, qui vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum. Amen.*
,I find that the best way to talk to God is to use the heart. This does not preclude, however, a use of the prayers of our wise brethren in Heaven. While they sojourned on this particular front in the War, their souls left us some of the greatest prayers in history. These pieces of holy poetry addressed to God show us how to pray! Here’s one from St. Thomas, a good patron and a kind man: in debate, analysis, lecture, essay, article, and word.
You are strongly encouraged to speak to God, using this prayer, before study. When about to read the Bible, Church history, or some document of the Fathers, please do pray this. Any other ideas for such prayers from Liguori, de Sales, Loyola, and other studious men?
This is from EWTN’s English translation of Pope Pius XI’s encyclical “studiorum ducem”, which put Aquinas to the forefront of seminary education in 1923.
Prayer of St. Thomas
ewtn.com/library/encyc/p11studi.htm
*Ineffable Creator, Who out of the treasures of Thy wisdom hast appointed three hierarchies of Angels and set them in admirable order high above the heavens and hast disposed the divers portions of the universe in such marvelous array, Thou Who art called the True Source of Light and super-eminent Principle of Wisdom, be pleased to cast a beam of Thy radiance upon the darkness of my mind and dispel from me the double darkness of sin and ignorance in which I have been born.
Thou Who makest eloquent the tongues of little children, fashion my words and pour upon my lips the grace of Thy benediction. Grant me penetration to understand, capacity to retain, method and facility in study, subtlety in interpretation and abundant grace of expression.
Order the beginning, direct the progress and perfect the achievement of my work, Thou who art true God and Man and livest and reignest for ever and ever. Amen.*
This is from the actual Latin encyclical:
vatican.va/holy_father/pi…-ducem_lt.html
*Creator ineffabilis, qui de thesauris sapientiae tuae tres Angelorum hierarchias designasti, et eas super caelum empyreum miro ordine collocasti, atgne universi partes elegantissime distribuisti: Tu, inquam, qui verus Fons Luminis et Sapientiae diceris, ac supereminens Principium, infundere digneris super intellectus mei tenebras, tuae radium claritatis, duplices, in quibus natus sum, a me removens tenebras, peccatum scilicet, et ignorantiam.
Tu, qui linguas infantium facis disertas, linguam meam erudias atque in labiis meis gratiam tuae benedictionis infundas. Da mihi intelligendi acumen, retinendi capacitatem, addiscendi modum et facilitatem, interpretandi subtilitatem, loquendi gratiam copiosam.
Ingressum instruas, progressum dirigas, egressum compleas: Tu qui es verus Deus et homo, qui vivis et regnas in saecula saeculorum. Amen.*