Excerpt from An Exposition of Our Lord's Intercessory Prayer: With a Discourse on the Relation of Our Lord's Intercession to the Conversion of the World The composition before us is a prayer. And what is prayer? Prayer is uttered desire desire is its soul, utter ance its body. Prayer to God, then, is very appropriately described in our Catechism as the offering up of our desires 2 to him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.