PENTECOST NOVENA: Day 2, for SATURDAY, June 4

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This Pentecost Novena post is for Saturday, June 4.  Each day's post will include: a scripture verse drawn from the day's liturgy; an intention for a particular group; and the novena prayer based on the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Pentecost Novena - Day 2

To enter into a spirit of prayer... 

Listen to one of the fifteen songs found on the widget at the top of the sidebar: Songs for Pentecost Novena

Scripture of the day...

Jesus said to his disciples:
“Amen, amen, I say to you,
whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.
Until now you have not asked anything in my name;
ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.
“I have told you this in figures of speech.
The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures
but I will tell you clearly about the Father.
On that day you will ask in my name,
and I do not tell you that I will ask the Father for you.
For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me
and have come to believe that I came from God.
I came from the Father and have come into the world.
Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

John 16:23b-28

For reflection: I have my own ideas about what I need to make my joy complete but I wonder... what does God see that I need to complete my joy?  How do I need the help of the Holy Spirit to see, to find, to embrace the joy that God wants for me, the joy God is offering me?
 

Today's Intention

Let us pray today for the poor...
May the Holy Spirit deepen and sustain their faith in the face of want and may that same Spirit move us who have so much more than we need to be generous in sacrifice and service.

Novena Prayer

Come, Holy Spirit,

once more fill my heart

with the fire and power of your gifts.

Come, Holy Spirit,

fill up wisdom's lamp,

come enlighten my mind and my will.

Come, Holy Spirit,

light the way: help me see and embrace

all that God has revealed.

Come, Holy Spirit:

with knowledge of truth,

brand my mind and my heart with God's Word.

Come, Holy Spirit,

my beacon of counsel

for judgments both prudent and pure.

Come, Holy Spirit

and kindle my courage

to do what is right, what is just.

Come, Holy Spirit

and stoke my desire

to humble myself before God.

Come, Holy Spirit,

light the flame of your presence

and draw me to reverence and prayer.

Come, Holy Spirit,

fill my heart with your gifts

and my soul with the breath of your peace.

Come, Holy Spirit,

to the Father's love draw me

through my, Savior, my Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen.

Postlude: You might close your time of prayer with another song from the menu on the sidebar...
Pentecost Novena 2011 Daily
 
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