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PRAYER FOR THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
Mary TV
May 31, 2017
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Novena to the Holy Spirit, Day 6
Dear Family of Mary!
Being close to the Holy Spirit through prayer is the only way to gain understanding of the things of God. We cannot think our way into this understanding. We need personal revelation to help us truly grasp the significance and application of what God is doing in the world and in our lives. This comes through prayer and surrender to God.
And when we do receiving a light of understanding from the Holy Spirit, it knocks our socks off!!
SIXTH DAY (Wednesday, 7th Week of Easter)
The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Novena to the Holy Spirit, Day 6
Dear Family of Mary!
July 25, 1994 "Dear children! Today I invite you to decide to give time patiently for prayer. Little children, you cannot say you are mine and that you have experienced conversion through my messages if you are not ready to give time to God every day. I am close to you and I bless you all. Little children, do not forget that if you do not pray you are not close to me, nor are you close to the Holy Spirit who leads you along the path to holiness. Thank you for having responded to my call."
Being close to the Holy Spirit through prayer is the only way to gain understanding of the things of God. We cannot think our way into this understanding. We need personal revelation to help us truly grasp the significance and application of what God is doing in the world and in our lives. This comes through prayer and surrender to God.
And when we do receiving a light of understanding from the Holy Spirit, it knocks our socks off!!
SIXTH DAY (Wednesday, 7th Week of Easter)
If Thou take Thy grace away,
nothing pure in man will stay,
All his good is turn'd to ill.
The Gift of Understanding
Understanding, as a gift of the Holy
Spirit, helps us to grasp the meaning of the truths of our holy
religion. By Faith we know them, but by Understanding we learn to
appreciate and relish them. It enables us to penetrate the inner meaning
of revealed truths and through them to be quickened to newness of life.
Our faith ceases to be sterile and inactive, but inspires a mode of
life that bears eloquent testimony to the faith that is in us; we begin
to "walk worthy of God in all things pleasing, and increasing in the
knowledge of God."
Prayer
Come, O Spirit of Understanding, and
enlighten our minds, that we may know and believe all the mysteries of
salvation; and may merit at last to see the eternal light in Thy Light;
and in the light of glory to have a clear vision of Thee and the Father
and the Son. Amen.
Our Father and Hail Mary ONCE. Glory be to the Father SEVEN TIMES.
ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE HOLY SPIRIT
To be recited daily during the Novena
On my knees 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 is listening." 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 that 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 Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan
Mary TV
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