impetration

The minimum that suffices for the personal benefits of merit and impetration is the verbal or the literal attention, and the imperfect attention that is mixed with some unwilled distractions or mind wanderings.

That is, we shall not be wrong in holding that this child has in his mind the image of an Invisible Being, who exercises a particular providence among us, who is present every where, who is heart-reading, heart-changing, ever-accessible, open to impetration.

Then he gives us learned dissertations on Her whom he calls the Treasure-house of all good, the Mediatrix of love and impetration.

The reason of impetration on the part of God is His sanctity, on account of which we ask to be heard, according to Dan.

The second effect of prayer is proper thereto, and consists in impetration: and again the original intention, to which God looks chiefly, suffices to obtain this effect.