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title: "Summa Theologica, First Half"
author: "Thomas Aquinas"
translator: "Fathers of the English Dominican Province"
languages: [en]
shelf: "Medieval"
section: 1099 of 1210
url: https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-first-half/1099/
cite: "Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Summa Theologica, First Half, section 1099. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/thomas-aquinas-summa-theologica-first-half/1099/"
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# Summa Theologica, First Half

*Thomas Aquinas, tr. Fathers of the English Dominican Province*

God and creation, human action, law and grace, then faith, hope, charity and justice.

## 1099. II–II · Question 83: Of Prayer (seventeen Articles)

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[¶0] OF PRAYER (SEVENTEEN ARTICLES)

[¶1] We must now consider prayer, under which head there are seventeen points of inquiry:

[¶2] (1) Whether prayer is an act of the appetitive or of the cognitive power?

[¶3] (2) Whether it is fitting to pray to God?

[¶4] (3) Whether prayer is an act of religion?

[¶5] (4) Whether we ought to pray to God alone?

[¶6] (5) Whether we ought to ask for something definite when we pray?

[¶7] (6) Whether we ought to ask for temporal things when we pray?

[¶8] (7) Whether we ought to pray for others?

[¶9] (8) Whether we ought to pray for our enemies?

[¶10] (9) Of the seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer;

[¶11] (10) Whether prayer is proper to the rational creature?

[¶12] (11) Whether the saints in heaven pray for us?

[¶13] (12) Whether prayer should be vocal?

[¶14] (13) Whether attention is requisite in prayer?

[¶15] (14) Whether prayer should last a long time?

[¶16] (15) Whether prayer is meritorious? [*Art. 16]

[¶17] (16) Whether sinners impetrate anything from God by praying? [*Art. 15]

[¶18] (17) of the different kinds of prayer.