(First published on May 31, 2019 from Cathy Nolan of Marytv.tv - All Rights belong to her and to Marytv.tv)
Novena to the Holy Spirit, Day 1
Springs of Living Water!
Dear Family of Mary!
Today we begin the Novena to the Holy
Spirit which will culminate with the Feast of Pentecost! This year I want to
keep the readings and prayers simple and short. We will consider a message from
Our Lady of Medjugorje, read a scripture and then pray a prayer to the Holy
Spirit.
Let’s ask Our Lady to guide us in this
novena, preparing us as she prepared the Apostles in the upper room on that
first Pentecost!
Our Lady spoke to us on April 2, 2014:
“Dear children, with
a motherly love I desire to help you with your life of prayer and penance to be
a sincere attempt at drawing closer to my Son and His divine light – that you
may know how to separate yourselves from sin. Every prayer, every Mass and
every fasting is an attempt at drawing closer to my Son, a reminder of His
glory and a refuge from sin – it is a way to a renewed union of the good Father
and His children. Therefore, my dear children, with hearts open and full of
love, cry out the name of the Heavenly Father that He may illuminate you with
the Holy Spirit. Through the Holy Spirit you will become a spring of God’s
love. All those who do not know my Son, all those thirsting for the love and
peace of my Son, will drink from this spring. Thank you. Pray for your
shepherds. I pray for them and I desire that they may always feel the blessing
of my motherly hands and the support of my motherly heart.” (April 02, 2014)
This
reminds me of Jesus’ words in John, Chapter 7:
On
the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, “If
any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as the
scripture has said, `Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.'”
Now this he said about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to
receive; for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet
glorified. (Jn 7: 37-39)
When we are filled with the Holy
Spirit, our hearts become springs of living water, springs of the love of God,
which flow out on those who do not know the love of Jesus. The Holy Spirit
makes us capable of loving others. This is a great thing. We can change the
world, if we learn to love and are empowered to love by the Spirit.
Prayer:
O Holy Spirit,
Uncreated Love of the Ever-blessed Trinity,
you are living Water and living Fire.
Fill my heart with the streams of your grace,
and make it clean before you.
Fill my heart with the fire of your love,
and burn up all the dross in it,
that it may be bright in your eyes.
Lord Jesus, let your Holy Spirit
dwell ever more and more in my heart.
Amen
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2019
June 1, 2019
Day Two – Novena to the Holy Spirit
The Spirit of Sonship!
Dear Family of Mary!
This is Day Two of our Novena to the
Holy Spirit. Today Our Lady prays that the action of the Holy Spirit in our
hearts will strengthen us, heal us, and make us children and apostles of Jesus.
St. Paul tells us that “you have received the spirit of sonship” (Rom
8:14). May we receive the Holy Spirit as children of God, and be made
strong in love.
“Dear children, I
love you all. All of you, all of my children, all of you are in my heart. All
of you have my motherly love, and I desire to lead all of you to come to know
God’s joy. This is why I am calling you. I need humble apostles who, with an
open heart, will accept the Word of God and help others to comprehend the
meaning of their life alongside God’s word. To be able to do this my children,
through prayer and fasting, you must learn to listen with the heart and to
learn to keep submitting yourselves. You must learn to keep rejecting
everything that distances you from God’s word and to yearn only for that which
draws you closer to it. Do not be afraid. I am here. You are not alone. I am
imploring the Holy Spirit to renew and strengthen you. I am imploring the Holy
Spirit that, as you help others, you too may be healed. I am imploring Him
that, through Him, you may be God’s children and my apostles.“ (September 2, 2013)
St. Paul wrote to the Romans about the action of the Holy Spirit. The entire
letter to the Romans is a school on the Holy Spirit! But especially here in
Chapter 8 we hear the call to become children of God:
“For all who are led
by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of
slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of sonship.
When we cry, ‘Abba! Father!’ it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our
spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God
and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may
also be glorified with him”
(Rom 8: 14-17).
One of the most wonderful actions of the Holy Spirit is that of Baptism, when
we are born into the family of God and become sons and daughters of God. We are
included in the family of Heaven, made participants in the light of God’s
truth! But we must constantly choose to remain in God’s family. This is done
through the Sacraments, especially Reconciliation and Eucharist. Through the
action of the Holy Spirit we, who stray from the truth and commit sin, can be
reattached to the vine, the Family of God, and be nourished even daily to stay
strong on the way of love. We can live our true life as sons and daughters of
God.
Let us pray:
Prayer to Live as a Child of God
Father in Heaven,
when the Spirit came down upon Jesus
at His Baptism in the Jordan,
You revealed Him as Your Own Beloved Son.
Keep me, Your child,
born of water and the Spirit,
faithful to my calling.
May I, who share in Your Life
as Your child through Baptism,
follow in Christ’s path of service to people.
Let me become one in His Sacrifice
and hear His Word with faith.
May I live as Your child,
following the example of Jesus.
Amen.
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2019
June 2, 2019
Novena to the Holy Spirit Day 3
(Feast of the Ascension of the Lord in
some Dioceses)
Dear Family of Mary!
Come Holy Spirit!
Today Our Lady calls us to pray for the
gifts of the Holy Spirit! She longs for us to put God in the first place and
set aside our temporal, material desires. St. Paul tells us that all the gifts
of the Spirit come from one Lord and God of all, but each of us will manifest
the individual gifts God desires to give to each of us. Just as we see in
nature the manifold variety and beauty of God’s creatures, so in the Spirit, we
see in each of us the manifold variety and beauty of God’s plan for His
children! Let us stand in awe at what God wants to give to us, each of us as a
gift to the others and set aside our worldly concerns!
April 17, 1986 “Dear children! You
are absorbed with material things, but in the material you lose everything that
God wishes to give you. I call you, dear children, to pray for the gifts of the
Holy Spirit which are necessary for you now in order to be able to give witness
to my presence here and to all that I am giving you. Dear children, let go to
me so I can lead you completely. Don’t be absorbed with material things. Thank
you for having responded to my call.”
St.
Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 12:
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are
varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of working,
but it is the same God who inspires them all in every one. To each is given the
manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given through the
Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge
according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another
gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to
another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to
another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All
these are inspired by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one
individually as he wills. (1 Cor 12:4-11)
God is so generous and His gifts are so manifold! We are indeed the most blessed
of children! Let’s be generous in return, and ask the Lord to give us whatever
gifts He deems best for each one of us, so that the whole Body of Christ can be
built up in love!! Let us “let go” to Our Lady so that she can lead us
completely. She is the Spouse of the Holy Spirit; she knows best!
Let us pray:
Prayer
for the Gifts of the Holy Spirit
O
Lord Jesus Christ, Who, before ascending into heaven, didst promise to send the
Holy Ghost to finish Thy work in the souls of Thy Apostles and Disciples, deign
to grant the same Holy Spirit to me, that He may perfect in my soul the work of
Thy grace and Thy 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 Thy 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 Thee, 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,
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 Thy true disciples and animate me in all things
with Thy Spirit. Amen.
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2019
June 3, 2019
Novena to the Holy Spirit – Day Four
Dear Family of Mary!
Today we call upon the Holy Spirit as
Fire. Jesus came “to cast fire on the earth” (Lk 12:40). John the
Baptist understood this Fire, and told his followers about it: “John
answered them all, ‘I baptize you with water; but he who is mightier than I is
coming, the thong of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie; he will baptize
you with the Holy Spirit and with fire'” (Lk 3: 16). This Fire which is the
Holy Spirit has a purifying and empowering effect on those who receive Him.
Fire burns away what is not of God and sets hearts ablaze with love for God. It
is a dangerous thing to receive the Holy Spirit! Life changes.
Our Lady told us to desire this Fire:
Wednesday, March 14, 1984
“Pray and fast so that the kingdom of God may come among you. Let my Son set
you aglow with His fire.”
And in the Acts of the Apostles we see
the power of this Fire as it descends on the Apostles:
When
the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And
suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled
all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of
fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were all filled
with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave
them utterance. (Act 2: 1-4)
Everything changed for the Apostles at
that moment. They became fearless witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus! They
could not be stopped until the entire world knew about Jesus!
Let
us pray for this gift of Fire:
O
HOLY SPIRIT, LORD OF GRACE
O Holy Spirit, Lord of grace,
Eternal Fount of love,
Inflame, we pray, our inmost hearts
with
fire from Heav’n above.
As Thou in bond of love dost join
The Father and the Son,
So fill us all with mutual love,
and
knit our hearts in one.
All glory to the Father be,
all glory to the Son,
All glory, Holy Ghost, to Thee,
while
endless ages run.
And one extra prayer today. A prayer of
consecration to Our Lady that was dictated to Jelena Vasilj in 1983. This
prayer speaks of the “Flame of your heart, oh Mary!” This Flame can be none
other than the Fire of the Holy Spirit, because her heart was really the Holy
Spirit Himself!
Consecration to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary
(Given
by Our Lady to Jelena Vasilj, 11/28/1983)
O Immaculate Heart of Mary, overflowing
with goodness, Show us your love for
us.
May the flame of your heart, Oh Mary,
Descend upon all peoples.
We love you immensely.
Impress in our hearts a true love.
May our hearts yearn for you.
Oh Mary, sweet and humble of heart,
Remember us when we sin.
You know that all mankind are sinners.
Through your most sacred and maternal
heart,
Cure us from every spiritual illness.
Make us capable of looking at the
beauty of your maternal heart,
and that, thus, we may be converted
to the flame of your heart. Amen
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2019
June 4, 2019
Novena to the Holy Spirit – Day 5
Dear Family of Mary!
Today we call upon the Holy Spirit, the
Spirit of Truth! Our Lady has emphasized the necessity of living in the truth
in many of her messages. We will consider two of them. Jesus, Himself, used the
title, “Spirit of Truth” in our scripture. We are being given a great gift in
the Truth. It is something that all people desire, but is impossible to attain
through our merely human powers of intellect. It is the Holy Spirit who reveals
the truth to us, as gift!
“Dear children! Tomorrow night pray for the Spirit of Truth! Especially, you
from the parish because you need the Spirit of Truth to be able to convey the
messages just the way they are, neither adding anything to them, nor taking
anything whatsoever away from them, but just the way I said them. Pray for the
Holy Spirit to inspire you with the spirit of prayer, so you will pray more. I,
your Mother, tell you that you are praying little. Thank you for having
responded to my call.” (June 9, 1984, Vigil of Pentecost)
“Dear children! With a full heart I am asking you, I am imploring you
children: cleanse your hearts of sin and lift them up to God and to eternal
life. I am imploring you: be vigilant and open for truth. Do not permit for all
that is of this earth to distance you from the true cognition of the
contentment in the communion with my Son. I am leading you on the way of true
wisdom, because only with true wisdom can you come to know true peace and the
true good. Do not waste time asking for signs of the Heavenly Father, because
He has already given you the greatest sign, which is my Son. Therefore, my
children, pray so that the Holy Spirit can lead you into truth, can help you to
come to know it, and through that knowledge of the truth that you may be one
with the Heavenly Father and with my Son. That is the cognition which gives
happiness on earth and opens the door of eternal life and infinite love. Thank
you.” (March 18, 2015)
Jesus told the Apostles:
“I have yet many
things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth
comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own
authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the
things that are to come.” (Jn 16:12-13)
Let us pray:
O HOLY SPIRIT, Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, Spirit of Truth, of
Love and of Holiness, proceeding from the Father and the Son and equal to Them
in all things, I adore Thee and love Thee with all my heart. Teach me to know
and seek my last end; grant me the holy fear of God; grant me compunction and
patience, and suffer me not to fall into sin. Grant me an increase of Faith,
Hope and Charity, and bring forth in my soul all the virtues proper to my state
of life. Make me a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ, and an obedient child of
Holy Church. Grant me an efficacious grace to keep the Commandments and to
receive the Sacraments worthily. Grant me the Four Cardinal Virtues, Thy Seven
Gifts, Thy Twelve Fruits. Raise me to perfection in the state of life to which
Thou hast called me; and lead me, through a happy death, to life everlasting
through Jesus Christ Our Lord. Amen.
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2019
June 5, 2019
Novena to the Holy Spirit Day Six
Dear Family of Mary!
Today we consider the Holy Spirit as our Comforter and Strengthener. Our Lady
encourages us to open our hearts to the Holy Spirit so He can transform us. The
Holy Spirit will help us to call God our Father and make us capable of love!
St. Paul in The Letter to the Ephesians says the very same thing, that through
the Holy Spirit we will be strengthen in the inner man and we will be grounded
in love. We need very much the strengthening and comforting love of the Holy
Spirit, for we are naturally weak and lack the power to love on our own. Oh
Comforter to thee we cry!
Our Lady asked us to open our hearts to the Holy Spirit:
“Dear children, Today I call you to open your hearts to the Holy Spirit and
permit Him to transform you. My children, God is the immeasurable good and
therefore, as a mother, I implore you: Pray, pray, pray, fast and hope that it
is possible to achieve good, because from that good love is born. The Holy
Spirit will strengthen that love in you and you will be able to call God your
Father. Through this exalted love, you will truly come to love all people and,
through God, you will regard them as brothers and sisters. Thank you.” (November 2, 2007)
St. Paul prays that we might be strengthen by the Spirit in the inner man:
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in
heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may
grant you to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man,
and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted
and grounded in love, may have power to comprehend with all the saints what is
the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ
which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (Eph 3: 14-20)
Let us pray through this wonderful hymn to the Holy Spirit:
Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest,
And in our souls take up your rest;
Come with your grace and heavenly aid
To fill the hearts which you have made
O Comforter, to you we cry,
O heavenly gift of God Most High,
O fount of life and fire of love,
And sweet anointing from above.
You in your sevenfold gifts are known;
You, finger of God’s hand we own;
You, promise of the Father, you
Who do the tongue with power imbue.
Kindle our senses from above,
And make our hearts overflow with love;
With patience firm and virtue high
The weakness of our flesh supply.
Far from us drive the foe we dread,
And grant us your peace instead;
So shall we not, with you for guide,
Turn from the path of life aside.
Oh, may your grace on us bestow
The Father and the Son to know;
And you, through endless times confessed,
Of both the eternal Spirit blest.
Now to the Father and the Son,
Who rose from death, be glory given,
With you, O holy Comforter,
Henceforth by all in earth and heaven.
Amen.
In Jesus Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2019
June 6, 2019
Novena to the Holy Spirit – Day 7
Dear Family of Mary!
Today we call upon the Holy Spirit to
be our Guide. Jesus called the Spirit the Paraclete, which can be translated
“The one who accompanies…” I like this idea. The Holy Spirit is so gentle and
loving that we might not even realize He is with us. But He comes to guide us
into holiness and God’s plan for us, if we will let Him. Our Lady lived a life
of complete union with the Holy Spirit and so she knows how He operates. She
wants us to be led by the Spirit too.
Our Lady spoke about the guidance of
the Holy Spirit:
“Dear children! Today
I call you, through prayer and sacrifice, to prepare yourselves for the coming
of the Holy Spirit. Little children, this is a time of grace and so, again, I
call you to decide for God the Creator. Allow Him to transform and change you.
May your heart be prepared to listen to, and live, everything which the Holy
Spirit has in His plan for each of you. Little children, allow the Holy Spirit
to lead you on the way of truth and salvation towards eternal life. Thank you
for having responded to my call.”
(May 25, 1998)
And St. Paul also lived by the guidance
of the Holy Spirit. He wrote:
But, as it is
written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived,
what God has prepared for those who love him,” God has revealed to us through
the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For
what person knows a man’s thoughts except the spirit of the man which is in
him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from
God, that we might understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. And we impart
this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting
spiritual truths to those who possess the Spirit. (1 Cor 2: 9-13)
Cardinal John Henry Newman wrote a
famous poem about the guidance of the Holy Spirit:
Cardinal John Henry
Newman (1801-1890) – Lead, Kindly Light
Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling
gloom,
Lead Thou me on!
The night is dark, and I am far from home-
Lead Thou me on!
Keep Thou my feet; I do not ask to see
The distant scene-one step enough for me.
I was not ever thus, nor prayed that
Thou
Shouldst lead me on.
I loved to choose and see my path; but
now,
Lead Thou me on!
I loved the garish day, and, spite of fears,
Pride ruled my will: remember not past years.
So long Thy power hath blessed me, sure
it still
Will lead me on,
O’er moor and fen, o’er crag and torrent, till
The night is gone;
And with the morn those angel faces smile
Which I have loved long since, and lost awhile.
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2019
June 7, 2019
Novena to the Holy Spirit – Day 8
Dear Family of Mary!
Prayer with the heart! Our Lady has
consistently requested that we pray with the heart, that we come before the
Lord with our hearts open and ready. But how often do we realize that prayer is
not something we can do on our own? As St. Paul says, “we do not know how to
pray as we ought!” We need help! Today we will ask the Holy Spirit to come
to our aid. We will ask for the Holy Spirit to actually pray in us, for us,
with sighs to deep for words!
Our Lady said:
“Dear children! Also
today I call you to prayer. Renew your personal prayer, and in a special way
pray to the Holy Spirit to help you pray with the heart. I intercede for all of
you, little children, and call all of you to conversion. If you convert, all
those around you will also be renewed and prayer will be a joy for them. Thank
you for having responded to my call.”
(May 25, 2003)
St. Paul gives us good advice:
Likewise, the Spirit
helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the
Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words. And he who
searches the hearts of men knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the
Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. (Rom 8: 26-27)
The Holy Spirit does not leave us on
our own in prayer. God Himself comes to us to pray in us, to pray with us, to
show us how to pray. The Holy Spirit wants us to succeed in prayer! The Father
wants to connect with us, and Jesus wants us to know how special we are to Him.
So we only have to ask the Holy Spirit to come, and He will come, and He will
pray in us with a sweetness we will never want to stop. This is prayer with the
heart! And so we pray:
Come
Holy Spirit
Come, Holy Spirit,
come
Let thy bright beams arise,
Dispel the darkness from our minds,
And open all our eyes.
Revive our drooping faith,
Our doubts and fears remove,
And kindle in our breasts the flame
Of everlasting Love. Amen!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2019
June 8, 2019
Novena to the Holy Spirit Day 9
Dear Family of Mary!
Our Lady once told us: “Dear children! Today I wish to call you to work in
the Church…” (October 31, 1985). She went on to tell us: “I love all the
same and I desire from each one to work as much as is possible. I know, dear
children, that you can, but you do not wish to because you feel small and
humble in these things.” She encouraged us to have courage and do what we
could. I think we all know what she means. We do feel small and humble. It is
hard to take the risk of failing, and so we don’t step forward to help in the
Church. But, we have a secret power that we don’t even know about!! It is the
Holy Spirit! He is with us to help us to live out our role in service to
others.
And so today we ask to understand how the Holy Spirit will work through us for
others:
“Dear children! Today I invite you to open yourselves to God by means of
prayer so the Holy Spirit may begin to work miracles in you and through you. I
am with you and I intercede before God for each one of you because, dear
children, each one of you is important in my plan of salvation. I invite you to
be carriers of good and peace. God can give you peace only if you convert and
pray. Therefore, my dear little children, pray, pray, pray and do that which
the Holy Spirit inspires you. Thank you for having responded to my call.”
(May 25, 1993)
St. Paul explains how the Holy Spirit operates in us, working through each of
us:
Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are
varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of working,
but it is the same God who inspires them all in every one. To each is given the
manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given through the
Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge
according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another
gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to
another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to
another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All
these are inspired by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one
individually as he wills. (1 Cor 12: 4-11)
And so we pray:
Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the
fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You
shall renew the face of the earth.
O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the
faithful, grant that by the same Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever
enjoy His consolations, Through Christ Our Lord, Amen.
We have finished our Novena to the Holy Spirit! Tomorrow we will pray with the
entire Church to receive the Holy Spirit anew, with a fresh out pouring of
grace! Come Holy Spirit!
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2019
June 9, 2019
The Feast of Pentecost
Dear Family of Mary!
We have arrived at Pentecost! Today we
receive an outpouring of the Holy Spirit through the ministry of the Church! Our
Lady wants us to be filled with the Holy Spirit. She has said:
November 8, 1984 "Dear children! You are
not conscious of the messages which God is sending you through me. He is giving
you great graces and you do not comprehend them. Pray to the Holy Spirit for
enlightenment. If you only knew how great are the graces God is granting you,
you would be praying without ceasing. Thank you for having responded to my
call."
April 25, 2015 "Dear children! I am with
you also today to lead you to salvation. Your soul is restless because your
spirit is weak and tired from all worldly things. You, little children, pray to
the Holy Spirit that He may transform you and fill you with His strength of
faith and hope, so that you may be firm in this battle against evil. I am with
you and intercede for you before my Son Jesus. Thank you for having responded
to my call."
And so today we will pray the Litany to the
Holy Spirit, to ask for all the graces we can possibly receive!!!
Litany to the Holy Spirit
Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.
Father all-powerful, have mercy on us.
Jesus, Eternal Son of the Father, Redeemer of the world, save us.
Spirit of the Father and the Son, boundless life of both, sanctify us.
Holy Trinity, hear us.
Holy Spirit, Who proceedest from the Father
and the Son, enter our hearts.
Holy Spirit, Who art equal to the Father and the Son, enter our hearts.
Promise of God the Father, have mercy on us.
Ray of heavenly light, have mercy on us.
Author of all good, [etc.]
Source of heavenly water Consuming fire
Ardent charity
Spiritual unction
Spirit of love and truth
Spirit of wisdom and understanding
Spirit of counsel and fortitude
Spirit of knowledge and piety
Spirit of the fear of the Lord
Spirit of grace and prayer
Spirit of peace and meekness
Spirit of modesty and innocence
Holy Spirit, the Comforter
Holy Spirit, the Sanctifier
Holy Spirit, Who governest the Church
Gift of God, the Most High
Spirit Who fillest the universe
Spirit of the adoption of the children of God
Holy Spirit, inspire us with horror of sin.
Holy Spirit, come and renew the face of the earth.
Holy Spirit, shed Thy light in our souls.
Holy Spirit, engrave Thy law in our hearts.
Holy Spirit, inflame us with the flame of Thy love.
Holy Spirit, open to us the treasures of Thy graces.
Holy Spirit, teach us to pray well.
Holy Spirit, enlighten us with Thy heavenly inspirations.
Holy Spirit, lead us in the way of salvation.
Holy Spirit, grant us the only necessary knowledge.
Holy Spirit, inspire in us the practice of good.
Holy Spirit, grant us the merits of all virtues.
Holy Spirit, make us persevere in justice.
Holy Spirit, be Thou our everlasting reward.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the
world,
Send us Thy Holy Spirit.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
pour down into our souls the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world,
grant us the Spirit of wisdom and piety.
V. Come, Holy Spirit! Fill the hearts of Thy
faithful,
R. And enkindle in them the fire of Thy love.
Let us pray. Grant, O merciful Father, that
Thy Divine Spirit may enlighten, inflame and purify us, that He may penetrate
us with His heavenly dew and make us fruitful in good works, through Our Lord
Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who with Thee, in the unity of the same Spirit, liveth
and reigneth, one God, forever and ever.
R. Amen.
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
©Mary TV 2019
