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Those readers who, in the past, have found the study of Aquinas especially daunting, will be grateful to the Dominican Paul Murray for the freshness and clarity he brings to his task. Praying with Confidence is both a stimulating scholarly study and an ideal introduction for the general reader. Never before have the most important reflections by Aquinas on the Lord’s Prayer been drawn together...

is wisdom (Prov 11:2). The proud trust only themselves. The Holy Spirit, therefore, teaches us, by the gift of wisdom, not to do our own will but God’s will. And, by virtue of this gift, we pray God that his will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And in this is seen the gift of wisdom.2 But what is God’s will exactly? What does Christ mean when he commands us to say: Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven? During one of the sermon-conferences at Naples, St Thomas asked this particular question,
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