PENTECOST NOVENA 2024 - Saturday 18 May: The Paraclete

Sign of the Cross

Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love.

Send forth your Spirit, and they shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth.

Intention

That God will bring about a new Pentecost within our Parish. Where we, like the Apostles, will proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ with boldness and invite many to come to Him.

In the Trinitarian plan of salvation, the Father draws us to the Son, whom the Holy Spirit reveals and disposes us to welcome.

As "the Lord and Giver of Life," the Holy Spirit brings about our rebirth in Baptism as the Father's adopted children in Christ, and as sharers in divine life.

Jesus calls the indwelling Holy Spirit our "Paraclete," which literally means "one who stands besides us" as a counselor, consoler, advocate, and friend.

The Holy Spirit leads the Church into "all the truth," and is the source and dynamic force of the Church's unity and mission. It is no wonder, then, that in every age the fruitfulness of the Church depends on the renewal of the mystery of Pentecost in the minds and hearts of believers. This is the renewal that we seek in our novena.

May the Holy Spirit rekindle the grace of Baptism and Confirmation in every Catholic, so that all may live the Christian life with fervor and zeal.

Let us pray

Holy Spirit enlighten us, strengthen us, guide us, and comfort us. You who pray and act in us, make us know the Father by contemplating the face of the Son who reveals him, so that we may proclaim the divine love of the Most Holy Trinity. Make our life a sign of love. Make this Parish a living word, an uplifting presence, a consecration of the world to the Trinitarian love that creates, redeems, and sanctifies, now and forever. Amen.

Mary, Star of Evangelization, pray for us.

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Scriptures regarding the Holy Spirit

Luke 11:13 "If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”	John 14:26 "But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you."
Acts 1:8 "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”	Acts 2:38 "Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins may be forgiven; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit."
Acts 9:31 "Meanwhile the church throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and was built up. Living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers."	Romans 5:5b "God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us."
1 Corinthians 6:19 "Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?"	1 Corinthians 12:3b "No one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit."
Ephesians 1:13 In him you also, when you had heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him, were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit;	2 Timothy 1:14 "Guard the good treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit living in us."
Titus 3:5 "He saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit."