| ### QUESTION 83 ### OF PRAYER ###  |

| #### Prologue |

| #### #### We must now consider prayer, under which head there are seventeen points of inquiry: #### (1) Whether prayer is an act of the appetitive or of the cognitive power? #### (2) Whether it is fitting to pray to God? #### (3) Whether prayer is an act of religion? #### (4) Whether we ought to pray to God alone? #### (5) Whether we ought to ask for something definite when we pray? #### (6) Whether we ought to ask for temporal things when we pray? #### (7) Whether we ought to pray for others? #### (8) Whether we ought to pray for our enemies? #### (9) Of the seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer; #### (10) Whether prayer is proper to the rational creature? #### (11) Whether the saints in heaven pray for us? #### (12) Whether prayer should be vocal? #### (13) Whether attention is requisite in prayer? #### (14) Whether prayer should last a long time? #### (15) Whether prayer is meritorious? #### (16) Whether sinners impetrate anything from God by praying? #### (17) of the different kinds of prayer. ####  |