JY Commitment Day - Novena - Day 4

[Jesus Youth Queensland]

HOLY SPIRIT NOVENA DAY -4

 

1. Come Holy Spirit

Leader: Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle

in them the fire of your love.

Community: Send forth your Spirit and renew the face of the earth.

2. Introductory Prayer

Leader: O God, of old you instructed the hearts of your faithful by

the light of the Holy Spirit. Give us this Holy Spirit; under His divine

inspiration, may we have a sense of what is true and a taste for what

is good, and always experience the fruit of His consolation. This we

ask through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son.

Community: Amen.

3. Prayer

Leader and Community : God the Father, Creator and Protector of

all, we praise you. God the Son, who incarnated as man to show the

world the love of the Father, we worship you. Jesus, we thank you for

sending your Holy Spirit upon us to prepare us to acknowledge

and believe that you are our Saviour and Lord. O, Holy Spirit, who,

since the creation of the Universe, has been continuously renewing

the face of the earth with your presence, we glorify you.

You, who descended upon our Holy Mother and the apostles who

had been prayerfully waiting in the House of Sion, come and fill this

community with your presence. Fill the hearts you created with

your divine graces. Enable us to fill our bodies, your dwelling places,

with holiness.

4. Word of God - Acts 4:23-31

5. Reflection on Word of God

6. Intercessions

Leader: Let us offer ourselves entirely to the Holy Spirit, who leads us in our daily lives, and pray to Him with great keenness, to fill us with strength of Spirit. By the gift of Fortitude the soul is strengthened against natural fear, and supported to the end in the performance of duty. Fortitude imparts to the will an impulse and energy which moves it to undertake without hesitancy the most arduous tasks, to face dangers, to trample under foot human respect, and to endure without complaint the slow martyrdom of even lifelong tribulation. "He that shall persevere unto the end, he shall be saved."

Community: Fill us with strength of Spirit.

a) O, Holy Spirit, who led the early Church in strength and fullness of grace, that we may boldly proclaim our faith in you,

Comm: Fill us with strength of Spirit.

b) O, Jesus, who warned us about the torments and persecutions that we may have to face in the world, that in the midst of difficulties and sufferings, we may not waver, but be strengthened in faith,

Comm: Fill us with strength of Spirit.

c) That in the midst of all the atrocities and persecutions that are occurring against Christians, we may persevere in faith,

Comm: Fill us with strength of Spirit.

d) That having received God’s call to be the prophets of the times, we may in our journey towards heaven, identify the evil around us and accept you, who are good and good alone,

Comm: Fill us with strength of Spirit.

 e) Add here the particular needs of JY:

Growth in the Cells/Fellowship/Ministries/Vocation Discernments

7.Our Father x 1

 8. Prayer to Mother Mary

Leader and Community: O Holy Mary, Mother of God and our

Saviour Jesus Christ, intercede for me to God the Father that I may

be freed from my sins by the merits of the Precious Blood of your

Divine Son, and that I may be filled with the gifts and fruits of the

Holy Spirit. Take away from me my sinful heart and give me the new

heart that Almighty God promised through the prophet Ezekiel. "I

will give them a new heart, and put a new spirit within them. I will

remove the heart of stone from their flesh and give them a heart

of flesh, so that they may follow my statutes and keep my ordinances

and obey them. Then they shall be my people and I will be their

God." (Ezekiel 11:19-20). Holy and loving Mother, intercede for me

that I may be filled with the love of the Holy Spirit. Help me to be

filled with the spirit of repentance, to abandon my sinful ways and

be transformed into a new individual by the power of the Precious

Blood of Jesus.

9.Act of Consecration to the Holy Spirit

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, so to keep me in Your grace that I may never

sin against You. Give me grace O Holy Ghost, Spirit of the Father

and the Son, to say to You always and everywhere, "Speak Lord, for

Your servant heareth." Amen.

10. Concluding Prayer

Leader: O God, give us the fruit of patience. Help us to be patient at work and in our enterprises so that we will never give way but always hold on to the end. Help us to have patience with people, so that we may never lose our temper or grow irritable, or blaze into angry words. Help us to have patience when things are slow to come and slow to happen or when something takes a long time to do. Help us to remember that everything worth doing is hard to do and takes time; that everything worth getting is hard to get; that everything worth being is hard to be, but that the struggle and the effort are worth while in the end. This we ask in the name of Jesus.

Community : Amen.