FAMILY NOVENA TO THE HOLY SPIRIT

Dear Family and friends,

Please take a few minutes; through the Immaculate Heart of our heavenly Mother, let us enter into the Will of God and pray;

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FAMILY NOVENA TO THE HOLY SPIRIT  

 

(Come Divine Will, pray in my praying).  O my Holy Spirit perennial font of grace and love, Joy of the Trinity, Creator of the universe, sweetest guest of hearts,

Holy Spirit (Photo credit: micmol 

Light and splendor of souls,

I _____ the lowliest of the sinners to you do come, with humility and confidence I dare to consecrate myself and all those I love to you.  

 

Divine Spirit, breath on my weak and sterile being and bring me the light, the warmth and abundance of holy works.  Come to my soul to purify everything, which is defective and sinful.  Adorn my soul with the immensity of your richness, the power of your gift and the fire of your love.  Make my soul your perpetual and sweet dwelling place, and a magnificent temple of your Glory.  

 

O my Divine Spirit, furnace of eternal love for souls, in your infinite bounty and charity, you search for the hearts of men to give them a new divine life.  You want to renew the world with your perennial Pentecost of graces, virtues and gifts.  This is the time that souls, more than ever, need your presence, your grace and your power to be detached from sinful ways and to be brought to the ideals of the Gospel and to the imitation of divine Perfection.  Today, I come to you, I consecrate myself and my family to you, and I open myself to your mysterious and divine work, to be completely renewed in body and soul so that I can become a worthy vessel of your bounty and election.  

 

O my Holy Spirit, this consecration is like a personal covenant with you.  I offer and consecrate myself and my family to you and I beg you to grant me the desires of my heart the favour of conversion reconciliation healing final perseverance and a happy holy death for all of us.  Confirm us in your grace, in your work.  Be our joy, our consolation, our strength, our rest and our all.  In spite of our nothingness, we desire to be your devoted servants, your faithful friends. 

 

O my Holy Spirit, in all our weaknesses and infirmities, help us always with your grace and win us always with the kiss of your eternal love.  Transport us always in the kingdom of truth and charity.  Bring us and unite us continuously to Jesus Christ and the Eternal Father.                                 

Pentecost (Photo credit: Messiah Lutheran (Mechanicsville, VA))

                                                             Amen.

 

PRAYER FOR THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

 

O Lord Jesus Christ Who, before ascending into heaven did promise to send the Holy Spirit to finish Your work in the souls of Your Apostles and Disciples, deign to grant the same Holy Spirit to me that He may perfect in my soul, the work of Your grace and Your love.  Grant me the Spirit of Wisdom that I may despise the perishable things of this world and aspire only after the things that are eternal, the Spirit of Understanding to enlighten my mind with the light of Your divine truth, the Spirit of Counsel that I may ever choose the surest way of pleasing God and gaining heaven, the Spirit of Fortitude that I may bear my cross with You and that I may overcome with courage all the obstacles that oppose my salvation, the Spirit of Knowledge that I may know God and know myself and grow perfect in the science of the Saints, the Spirit of Piety that I may find the service of God sweet and amiable, and the Spirit of Fear that I may be filled with a loving reverence towards God and may dread in any way to displease Him.  Mark me, dear Lord with the sign of Your true disciples, and animate me in all things with Your Spirit.                                                     Amen! 

In His Will and with His Love, we remain One in Prayer,

Hat-tip to Felicia Murray for this post.

 

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