Pentecost is almost here! When the Holy Spirit arrives on Pentecost, confusion is replaced with confidence, joy and knowledge. The following prayers to the Holy Spirit were written by the Saints. They give us the insight into the lives of men and women in search of God’s will in their lives. Meditating on these prayers is a wonderful way to grow closer to God during this holy season.
Prayer Before Study
Come Holy Spirit, Divine Creator, true source of light and fountain of wisdom. Pour forth your brilliance upon my dense intellect, dissipate the darkness, which covers me, that of sin and of ignorance.
Grant me a penetrating mind to understand, a retentive memory, method and ease in learning, the lucidity to comprehend, and abundant grace in expressing myself.
Guide the beginning of my work, direct its progress, and bring it to successful completion.
This I ask through Jesus
Christ, true God and true man, living and regning with You and the Father, forever and ever.
Amen
Blessing Prayer
St. Dominic
May God the Father who made us bless us.
May God the Son send his healing among us.
May God the Holy Spirit move within us and give us eyes to see with, ears to hear with, and hands that your work might be done.
May we walk and preach the word of God to all. May the angel of peace watch over us and lead us at last by God’s grace to the Kingdom. Amen
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Prayer of St. Benedict
O gracious and holy God,
Give us wisdom to know you,
intelligence to understand you,
Diligence to seek you,
Patience to wait for you,
Eyes to behold you,
A heart to meditate upon you,
A life to proclaim you,
the power of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.
Amen
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Come into my Heart
Holy Spirit, come into my heart.
Draw it to Thee by Thy power, O my God,
and grant me charity with filial fear,
Preserve me, O beautiful love, from every evil thought;
Warm me, inflame me with Thy dear love,
And every pain will seem light to me.
My Father, my sweet Lord, help me in all my actions.
Jesus, love,
Jesus, love.
Amen
Come Holy Sprit
O Come, Holy Sprit
fill the hearts of your faithful
and enkindle 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 has taught the hearts of the faithful
by the light of the Holy Spirit,
grant that by the gift of that same Spirit
we may be always truly wise
and ever rejoice in His consolation.
Amen
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Prayer for the Help of the Holy Spirit
O God, send forth your Holy Spirit into my heart that I may perceive, into my mind that I may remember, and into my soul that I may meditate.
Inspire me to speak with piety, holiness, tenderness and mercy. Teach guide and direct my thoughts and senses from beginning to end.
May your grace ever help and correct me, and may I be strengthened now with wisdom from on high, for the sake of your infinite mercy. Amen
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be Holy.
Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work too, may be holy.
Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love only what is holy.
Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy.
Guard me, then O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy.
Guard me, then O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy.
You have created us for Yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.
