Catechesis: The Seventh Petition

So the entire substance of all our prayer is directed against our chief enemy. LC III:113

But there is also included in this petition whatever evil may happen to us under the devil’s kingdom: poverty, shame, death, and, in short, all the agonizing misery and heartache of which there is such an unnumbered multitude on the earth. LC III:115

So God has briefly placed before us all the distress that may ever come upon us, so that we might have no excuse whatever for not praying. LC III:119