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PRACTICE OF MENTAL PRAYER

deception, disastrous to progress in prayer and virtue alike, and draw down God's blessings in abundance on our prayer.

Once we are indifferent to sensible favors and resigned to God's holy Will, we must choose the subject of our meditation! ''Al- though in itself," says St. Ignatius, ''the third consideration, that of the Divine Per- sons, is more perfect than the second, that of the mysteries connected with Our Lord, and the second more perfect than the first, namely, the consideration of our sins, yet by far the best plan for each individual is to choose that consideration in which God, Our Lord, communicates Himself most freely to the soul, sharing with it His most holy gifts and spiritual graces; for He knows and sees what is most suitable to each, and knowing all, points out the road which each ought to follow."¹

And yet the three subjects just mentioned should not be chosen to the exclusion of all others, for in every meditation there are three beings of whom we must never lose sight: The first is God, the Sovereign Lord of all things. Who on account of His infinite

¹ Borgia p. 268; Lettre 58, a St. Frànçois.