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Prayer, the Great Means of Salvation

St. Alphonsus de Liguori

AI-assisted English translation from the Italian; selected passages reviewed. Source, method & review limits

The necessity and power of prayer, the dispositions with which to pray, and the grace to persevere, with a substantial second part on grace and theological controversy, followed by prayers and devout aspirations.

2 parts · Prayers and devout aspirations · English translation from the Italian

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Contents

  1. About this edition
  2. Dedication
  3. To the Incarnate Word

  4. Part One

    Introduction
  5. Chapter I — Of the necessity of prayer
  6. Chapter II — Of the value of prayer
  7. Chapter III — Of the conditions of prayer
  8. Part Two
  9. First preliminary
  10. Chapter II — Second preliminary
  11. Chapter III — The system of Jansenius on relatively victorious delectation is set forth and refuted
  12. Chapter IV — God gives to all the grace to pray if they will, the sufficient grace alone, which is common to all, sufficing for prayer

  13. Prayers and devout aspirations

    Prayer to obtain final perseverance
  14. Prayer to Jesus Christ to obtain His holy love
  15. Prayer to obtain confidence in the merits of Jesus Christ, and in the intercession of Mary
  16. Prayer to obtain the grace of always praying
  17. Prayer to be said every day to obtain the graces necessary for salvation
  18. Devout thoughts and ejaculations
About this translation

This English translation from the Italian was drafted with AI assistance using SWE-2 Max and prepared as a reading edition for this library. Review has included source provenance, section structure, and selected source comparisons and corrections. It has not included a complete independent, sentence-by-sentence translation audit.

Translated from the Italian author text transcribed by IntraText from Opere ascetiche, volume II (Rome, 1962), pages 3–178. Modern editorial apparatus is excluded. Inherited bibliographic citations are incomplete; the introductory note describes the restored passages and review limitations.

This is a reading copy, not a critical edition. No professional translation certification or ecclesiastical approval is claimed for this modern edition.

No general reuse licence is specified for this modern translation or its source transcription. The age of the original work does not by itself establish their reuse terms.