NOVENA/DEVOTION TO THE HOLY SPIRIT (Can be done privately prior to Pentecost of anytime at all. Pentecost generally falls between May and June)
Prayer Outline:
1. Opening Hymn
2. Invocation of the Holy Spirit
3. Rosary (5 decades)
4. Litany of the Holy Spirit
5. Novena Prayer to the Holy Spirit
6. Intercessory prayer
7. Concluding Prayer
1. Opening Hymn
Come Holy Spirit, Creator come
2. Invocation of the Holy Spirit
3. Rosary (five decades)
4. Litany of the Holy Ghost:
Lord have mercy on us - Lord have mercy on us
Christ have mercy on us - Christ have mercy on us
Lord have mercy on us - Lord have mercy on us
God the Father all powerful - Have mercy on us
Jesus Eternal Son of the father - Have mercy on us
Redeemer of the World - Save us
Holy Trinity one God - Hear us
Holy Ghost who proceeds from the Father and the Son - Enter our hearts
Holy Ghost who is 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 - Have mercy on us
Source of heavenly water - Have mercy on us
Consuming fire - Have mercy on us
Ardent Charity - Have mercy on us
Spiritual unction - Have mercy on us
Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding - Have mercy on us
Spirit of Counsel/and fortitude - Have mercy on us
Spirit of knowledge and piety - Have mercy on us
Spirit of Grace and Prayer - Have mercy on us
Spirit of peace and Meekness - Have mercy on us
Spirit of Modesty and Innocence - Have mercy on us
Holy Ghost the Sanctifier - Have mercy on us
Holy Ghost who governs the Church - Have mercy on us
Gift of God the Most High - Have mercy on us
Spirit who fills the Universe - Have mercy on us
Spirit of the adoption of the Children of God - Have mercy on us
Holy Ghost - Inspire us with horror for sin
Holy Ghost - Come and renew the face of the earth
Holy Ghost - Shed your light in our hearts
Holy Ghost - Engrave thy law in our hearts
Holy Ghost - Inflame us with thy love
Holy Ghost - Open to us the treasures of thy graces
Holy Ghost - Teach us to pray well
Holy Ghost - Enlighten us with thy heavenly inspiration
Holy Ghost - Lead us in the way of salvation
Holy Ghost - Grant us the merits of all virtues
Holy Ghost - Make us persevere in justice
Holy Ghost - Be thou our everlasting reward
Lamb of God, who takes away the Sin of the world - Send us thy Holy Ghost
Lamb of God, who takes away the Sins of the world - Pour down into our souls the gifts of the Holy Ghost
Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world - Grant us the Spirit of Wisdom & Piety
V: Come Holy Ghost 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 enlighten, inflame and purify us that fie 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 lives and reigns forever and ever Amen.
5. NOVENA PRAYER TO THE HOLY SPIRIT
Holy Spirit of God, Holy Spirit the Comforter whom I have slighted, grieved and resisted from my childhood up to this day, receive me now as your disciple, guide me, enlighten me, sanctify me. Make me to know your sevenfold gift the spirit of wisdom and understanding of counsel and of fortitude, of knowledge and of piety and of the fear of the Lord.
You who are the Spirit of the Father and the Son, you who are the love of the Father and the Son; You who baptize with fire and shed abroad the love of God, shed that love into my heart.
One thine I have desired of the Lord, not wealth, rank, power, worldly happiness nor any worldly good but one spark of that heavenly fire to kindle within me the love of my God.
Holy Spirit, I give myself to you with all my intellect and with all my heart I desire to be bound to you for where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. No other liberty is true. To be your servant is to be living in the freedom of the sons of God.
Take me, Holy Spirit; take me as your disciple. Be my guide, wheresoever you lead. I will follow, whatever you command in your strength I will obey. Father of the poor, giver of good gifts, grant the favours I ask in this Novena. (Here mention your requests).
O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant we beg you by the same Holy Spirit, to love and relish what is right and evermore to rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
6. Intercessory prayer:
(Here mention other intentions after which everyone answers: “Holy Spirit, hear us”).
7. Concluding prayer:
- The Memorare.... - We fly to your Patronage....