Scholastic Answers

O God who works in us not only to “inspire our soul,” but also to “help the soul so that it may be effective,” work in us to desire good...

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.