Humbleness and disposition of our heart to make God’s will are doubtlessly the most efficient remedies for distractions and for temptations, because even the Enemy cannot fight against a humble heart.

An effective remedy against spiritual dryness and aridness is to avoid willing causes, specially lack of enthusiasm and spiritual laziness for the service of God. When it is due to unwilling reasons, the best thing to do is to accept God’s will as long as He wants to. To recognize that devotion it is not essential to feel a true love for God, it is enough to want to love God, in order to love Him; to be deeply humble, recognizing oneself unworthy of any consolation and above all to persist in praying.

We must remember that prayer is a vocation, but as the Catholic Church Catechism says, it is a universal vocation, it means that everybody is called to pray, God calls us and He has a great interest in our prayers.

Somebody asked St. Joan of Arch once, why God only spoke to her, and she answered: “You are wrong, God speaks to all of us, but it is necessary to listen to Him”. So the first good remedy would be to defeat the arrogance to think that we are very good because we pray. 1) We are not good because we pray, but because God is good. One good example of this is the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector. The Pharisee was the “good one” and the tax collector was the “bad one”, nevertheless the former was not listened for his arrogance and the latter went home justified. (Luke 18, 9-14).

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