Novena to the Holy Spirit - Day 2

The novena in honour of the Holy Spirit is the oldest of all novenas since it was first made at the direction of Our Lord Himself when He sent His apostles back to Jerusalem to await the coming of the Holy Spirit on the first Pentecost. Addressed to the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, it is a powerful plea for the light and strength and love so sorely needed by every Christian.

The nine-day Novena to the Holy Spirit will be prayed collectively by Jesus Youth around the world in union with the Universal Church to invoke a renewed out pouring of the Holy Spirit. The traditional Novena has been modified to include special prayers for a ‘new anointing’ on the movement.

SECOND DAY

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. O, Holy Spirit, fountain of holiness and love, come and purify us. Give us the grace to know and believe in the Father, the Son and their Spirit, you, the Holy Spirit. Amen.

4. Word of God – John 7:37-39

5. Short Reflection

6. Intercessions

Leader: Let us pray to the Lord, who has hidden his mysteries from the wise and learned and revealed them to infants. Understanding, as a gift of the Holy Ghost, helps us to grasp the meaning of the truths of our holy religion. By faith we know them, but by Understanding we learn to appreciate and relish them. It enables us to penetrate the inner meaning of revealed truths and through them to be quickened to newness of life.

Community: Community: Lord, enlighten our minds.

1.     O, Jesus, you said “Streams of life giving water will pour out from him who believes in me.“
Comm: Community: Lord, enlighten our minds.

2.     O, God, Word made flesh and incarnated among us, may we meditate on your divine words and imitate them in our lives,
Comm: Community: Lord, enlighten our minds.

3.     O, Holy Spirit, giver of Wisdom, may we use all the virtues and abilities you have bestowed upon us for the good of man and glory of God.
Comm: Community: Lord, enlighten our minds.

4.     O, Holy Spirit, inventor of all scientific and technical knowledge, may whatever you reveal be used only for good.
Comm: Community: Lord, enlighten our minds.

5.     O, Holy Spirit, source of wisdom, enable us to discern the will of God in all our ministries activities 
Comm: Community: Lord, enlighten our minds.

7. Our Father

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. Concluding Prayer

Leader: O God, give us the fruit of joy. Help us always to be happy and cheerful. Help us still to smile even when things go wrong. Help us always to look on the bright side of things, and to remember that even when things are at their worst, there is still something to be thankful for. Don’t let us grumble and complain, and don’t let us be pessimists and cynics. Make us spread joy and find happiness, not in doing what we want, but in doing what you want. We ask this through Jesus Christ, our Lord.

Community : Amen.