JY Commitment Day - Novena - Day 6
Jesus Youth Queensland
1. Come Holy Spirit
Leader: Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle 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 ofall, 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 - Romans 8:26-30.
26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
5.Time of Reflection
6.Intercessions
Leader: Let us pray to the Holy Spirit, who is always capable of giving us all that we need in abundance, praying, O, Life–Force of Devotion, come and fill us. The gift of Piety begets in our hearts a filial affection for God as our most loving Father. It inspires us to love and respect, for His sake, persons and things consecrated to Him, as well as those who are vested with His authority -His Blessed Mother and the Saints, the Church and its visible Head, our parents and superiors, our country and its rulers. He who is filled with the gift of Piety finds the practice of his religion, not a burdensome duty, but a delightful service. "Where there is love, there is no
labour".
Community: O, Life–Force of Devotion, come and fill us.
1. That we may rejoice in devotion to God and experience the sweetness of peace,
Comm. O, Life–Force of Devotion, come and fill us.
2. That we may be transformed into people who worship God in Spirit and Truth,
Comm. O, Life–Force of Devotion, come and fill us.
3. That we may obtain devotion to God, which is the source of all Wisdom, and the inspiration for us to perform all our actions according to the will of God,
Comm. O, Life–Force of Devotion, come and fills us.
4. That we may join in prayer with the Holy Spirit, who dwells in us, strengthening us in all our weaknesses,
Comm. O, Life–Force of Devotion, come and fills us.
5. Add here the particular needs of JY:
Growth in the Cells/Fellowship/Ministries/Vocation Discernments
7.Our Father x 1
8. Prayer to 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 goodness. Help us to be a goodexample to others in everything we do and say, and never to doanything that would lead others astray. Keep our words honest,pure and sincere. Keep our actions fit for you to see. Keep all our thoughts clean and honest so that even the most secret of themwould bear the full light of day. And in everything keep us frompride and from self conceit, and help us to think, not of what weare, but of what we ought to be. Hear our prayer for Jesus’ sake.
Community: Amen.