3543. Several times, moreover, two or three or four, they prayed the Lord's prayer, but so tenderly that they retained hardly any literal meaning. However, as they grow up they are endowed by the Lord with an ever greater sense, thus initiated into mental imagery, then into an understanding of inward qualities. So through little children especially the Lord works from within.
3543. They moreover, on three or four different occasions, recited the Lord's prayer, but so tenderly that they scarcely seemed to apprehend even the literal sense; but as they grow up they are endowed by the Lord with a fuller perception of the meaning, and are initiated into ideas, and finally into the understanding of the internal sense; for the Lord acts through them chiefly from an interior ground.
3543. Praeterea aliquoties, bis vel ter vel quater orarunt orationem Domini, sed ita tenere, ut vix aliquem sensum literalem haberent, at vero ut adolescunt, eo majori donantur a Domino, ita initiantur in ideas, tum in intellectum interiorum, sic per eos Dominus imprimis ab interiori agit.