In his work Love of Eternal Wisdom (Chap. 15, nn. 89-190). St. Louis de Montfort’s writes
In his work Love of Eternal Wisdom (Chap. 15, nn. 89-190). St. Louis de Montfort’s writes:
Whoever wishes to obtain wisdom must pray for it day and night without wearying or becoming disheartened. Blessing in abundance will be his if, after 10, 20, 30 years of prayer, or even an hour before he dies, he comes to possess it.
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No, it is not those who are careless and inconstant in their prayers and study who obtain Wisdom, but those rather who are like the man in the Gospel who goes during the night to knock at the door of a friend, wanting to borrow three loaves of bread (Lk 11.15).
Note that it is Divine Wisdom itself who in this parable or story teaches us how we should pray if we wish to be heard. This man knocked and repeated his knocking and entreaties four or five times with increased force and insistence in spite of the untimely hour, near midnight, and his friend having already gone to bed; and in spite of having been rebuffed and told repeatedly to be off and not make himself a selfish nuisance. At length the friend became so annoyed by the persistence of the man that he got out of bed, opened the door and gave him all he asked for. (Lk 11.5-8)
That is how we must pray to obtain Wisdom. And assuredly God wants to be importuned, and He will sooner or later rise up, open the door of His mercy and give us the three loaves of Wisdom, that is, the bread of life, the bread of understanding and the bread of angels. (Ecclesiasticus 15.3; Jn 6.35)