prayer for others, the more fitting it is that, as he does God’s will, so God should deign to do his by increasing the graces or converting the souls of those for whom he prays. Catholic commentators understand St. Paul to refer to this communion in good works when he encourages the Corinthians to help their needy brethren at Jerusalem. “Let your abundance,” he says (2 Cor. 8:14), “supply their want, that their abundance also may be the filling up of your want”—i.e. that you may share in their spiritual,