FIFTH DAY (Tuesday, 7th Week of Easter)
Light immortal!
Light Divine! Visit Thou these hearts of Thine, And our inmost being fill!
Holy Spirit soul of my soul, bring your
redeeming light to all who deny your love, or who have not received the message
of our redemption. May I be a
witness who gives flesh to your action in the world.
The Gift of Knowledge
The gift of Knowledge enables the soul to evaluate
created things at their true worth--in their relation to God. Knowledge unmasks
the pretense of creatures, reveals their emptiness, and points out their only
true purpose as instruments in the service of God. It shows us the loving care
of God even in adversity, and directs us to glorify Him in every circumstance
of life. Guided by its light, we put first things first, and prize the
friendship of God beyond all else. "Knowledge is a fountain of life to him
that possesseth it."
Prayer
Come, O Blessed Spirit of Knowledge, and grant that
I may perceive the will of the Father; show me the nothingness of earthly
things, that I may realize their vanity and use them only for Thy glory and my
own salvation, looking ever beyond them to Thee, and Thy eternal rewards. Amen.
ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE HOLY SPIRIT
To be recited daily during the Novena
On my knees I 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, to keep me in Your
grace that I may never sin against You. Give me grace O Holy Spirit, Spirit of
the Father and the Son to say to You always and everywhere, "Speak Lord
for Your servant heareth." Amen.
PRAYER FOR THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT
To be recited daily during the Novena
O Lord Jesus Christ Who, before ascending into
heaven did promise to send the Holy Spirit to finish Your work in the souls of
Your Apostles and Disciples, deign to grant the same Holy Spirit to me that He
may perfect in my soul, the work of Your grace and Your love. Grant me the
Spirit of Wisdom that I may despise the perishable things of this world and
aspire only after the things that are eternal, the Spirit of Understanding to
enlighten my mind with the light of Your divine truth, the Spirit on Counsel
that I may ever choose the surest way of pleasing God and gaining heaven, the
Spirit of Fortitude that I may bear my cross with You and that I may
overcome with courage all the obstacles that oppose my salvation, the Spirit of
Knowledge that I may know God and know myself and grow perfect in the science
of the Saints, the Spirit of Piety that I may find the service of God sweet and
amiable, and the Spirit of Fear that I may be filled with a loving reverence
towards God and may dread in any way to displease Him. Mark me, dear Lord with
the sign of Your true disciples, and animate me in all things with Your Spirit.
Amen.
