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FIRST DAY (Friday after Ascension or Friday of 6th Week of Easter)
The Holy Spirit
PRAYER FOR THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
Mary TV
May 26, 2017
St. Philip Neri
Dear Family of Mary!
Today we begin the Novena to the Holy Spirit. Each day until Saturday before Pentecost, we will pray this Novena together. Here is an explanation of the Novena from EWTN:
St. Philip Neri
Dear Family of Mary!
Today we begin the Novena to the Holy Spirit. Each day until Saturday before Pentecost, we will pray this Novena together. Here is an explanation of the Novena from EWTN:
The
novena in honor of the Holy Spirit is the oldest of all novenas since
it was first made at the direction of Our Lord Himself when He sent His
apostles back to Jerusalem to await the coming of the Holy Spirit on the
first Pentecost. It is still the only novena officially prescribed by
the Church. Addressed to the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, it is a
powerful plea for the light and strength and love so sorely needed by
every Christian. (You can find the entire Novena at this link: https://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/pentecost/seven_tx.htm )
I will include a message from Our Lady each day. Here is a message for today:
June
2, 1984 (Saturday) "Dear children! Tonight I wish to tell you during
the days of this Novena to pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on
your families and on your parish. Pray, and you shall not regret it.
God will give you gifts by which you will glorify Him till the end of
your life on this earth. Thank you for having responded to my call."
FIRST DAY (Friday after Ascension or Friday of 6th Week of Easter)
Holy Spirit! Lord of Light! From Your clear celestial height, Your pure beaming radiance give!
The Holy Spirit
Only one thing is important -- eternal
salvation. Only one thing, therefore, is to be feared--sin? Sin is the
result of ignorance, weakness, and indifference The Holy Spirit is the
Spirit of Light, of Strength, and of Love. With His sevenfold gifts He
enlightens the mind, strengthens the will, and inflames the heart with
love of God. To ensure our salvation we ought to invoke the Divine
Spirit daily, for "The Spirit helps our infirmity. We know not what we
should pray for as we ought. But the Spirit Himself asks for us."
Prayer
Almighty and eternal God, Who hast
vouchsafed to regenerate us by water and the Holy Spirit, and hast given
us forgiveness all sins, vouchsafe to send forth from heaven upon us
your sevenfold Spirit, the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, the
Spirit of Counsel and fortitude, the Spirit of Knowledge and Piety, and
fill us with the Spirit of Holy Fear. Amen.
ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE HOLY SPIRIT
To be recited daily during the Novena
On my knees I before the great multitude
of heavenly witnesses I offer myself, soul and body to You, Eternal
Spirit of God. I adore the brightness of Your purity, the unerring
keenness of Your justice, and the might of Your love. You are the
Strength and Light of my soul. In You I live and move and am. I desire
never to grieve You by unfaithfulness to grace and I pray with all my
heart to be kept from the smallest sin against You. Mercifully guard my
every thought and grant that I may always watch for Your light, and
listen to Your voice, and follow Your gracious inspirations. I cling to
You and give myself to You and ask You, by Your compassion to watch over
me in my weakness. Holding the pierced Feet of Jesus and looking at His
Five Wounds, and trusting in His Precious Blood and adoring His opened
Side and stricken Heart, I implore You, Adorable Spirit, Helper of my
infirmity, to keep me in Your grace that I may never sin against You.
Give me grace O Holy Spirit, Spirit of the Father and the Son to say to
You always and everywhere, "Speak Lord for Your servant heareth." Amen.
PRAYER FOR THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
To be recited daily during the Novena
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 on 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 Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
Mary TV
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