ESE - chap. XXVII - items 16 to 17 - Intelligible prayers - José Rodrigues
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Intelligible prayers. 16.If I do not understand what the words mean, I will be a barbarian to the one to whom I speak, and the one who speaks to me will be a barbarian to me. — If I pray in a language I don't understand, my heart prays, but my intelligence does not bear fruit. — If you praise God only from your heart, how will a man among those who only understand his own language respond amen at the end of his thanksgiving, since he does not understand what you say? — It's not that your action isn't good, but others aren't built up by it. (St. Paul, 1st epistle to the Corinthians, 14:11, 14, 16 and 17.) 17. Prayer only has value for the thought that is combined with it. Now, it is impossible to combine any thought with what we do not understand, because what we do not understand cannot touch the heart. For the vast majority of creatures, prayers made in a language they do not understand are nothing more than amalgams of words that say nothing to the spirit. For the prayer to resonate, each word must awaken an idea and, as long as it is not understood, no idea can awaken. It will be said as a simple formula, whose virtue will depend on the greater or lesser number of times it is repeated. Many pray out of duty; some, even, out of obedience to customs, so they consider themselves to be even, as long as they have said a prayer a certain number of times and in such and such an order. God sees what is going on deep in our hearts; reads thoughts and perceives sincerity. To judge him, therefore, as more sensitive to form than to background is to demean him. (Chap. XXVIII, n. 2.)
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