Question 83 — Prayer

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.