Scholastic Answers

O God who moves us by thy grace, and even more, imparts upon us the dignity of secondary causality, pour forth thy grace into our hearts...

O God who hath placed the life of sanctifying grace above that of gratuitous grace, grant unto us the desire of the greatest, charity.

O God who dost give unto thy ministers the gifts of gratuitous grace, pour upon us those gifts requisite to defend and propagate the faith.

O God who gives not only the grace to justify, but also the grace wherein we become instruments of justification...

In the former, we pull the wheat along with the tares, and, in the latter, we allow the gangrenous limb to infect the whole body.

O God whose love, knowledge, and nature we participate in, send thy Holy Spirit that we may be again renewed in thy grace and virtues.