Bellarmine: When Grave Sinners Say The Our Father

St. Robert Bellarmine, De Bonis Operibus In Particulari, Chap. 6: “… they who voluntarily persist in mortal sin deceptively say: Our Father Who Art In Heaven. For when they invoke the Father, they invoke not God but the Devil… For the Devil is not Heaven but in Hell. Concerning such prayer that Proverb (28:9) is rightly understood: [If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination.] And that statement of the man born blind (John 9:31): We know that God does not hear sinners.”