Sister Therese Maria teaching on the Holy Spirit and
Pentecost at the MYA Retreat on Saturday May 11 at St. Theresa’s Church
Brockton, M.A.
Below is our community’s nine day novena to the Holy Spirit.
This prayer is taken from the Pentecost Ramsho Hoosoyo. We pray this the day
after the Ascension until Pentecost in preparation for the coming of the Holy
Spirit.
Novena to the Holy Spirit
And now we
beg you, O Holy Spirit,
Spirit of
strength, knowledge and fear,
Spirit of
wisdom, understanding, compassion and true love:
Sanctify us,
body and soul, and we shall be resplendent and spotless sheep.
Heal us of
our egotism and enkindle in us the fire of your love;
implant in
our spirits the true faith of the apostles;
place within
our hearts that good hope and strong consolation
which will
raise us above the vanities of this world.
Do not allow
us to live with anything that might alienate us from
You and the
holiness of your love:
enmity, envy
and hatred.
Pour out
upon us your gifts, the bearers of life,
as you did upon the apostles.
Wherever we
may be, we shall confidently bear witness by our lives:
in our
leisure and our work, in our thoughts and words,
and by the whole demeanor of
our lives through the day and night.
Give us your
true life in this world,
And in the
world to come we shall glorify you by our deeds,
And praise
you with the Father and the Son,
the life-giving Trinity, forever. Amen.