Fruit of the Spirit
The Bible says, "the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control" (Galatians 5:22-23). Write down each of these "fruits" on different slips of paper. Gather different kinds of fruit, at least as many as the members of your family. Flip over the paper slips and mix them around. Pair an actual fruit with each fruit of the Spirit and have each family member choose one. Eat the real fruit, and whichever fruit of the Spirit you've chosen can be taped to your bedroom door. In the year ahead, ask the Holy Spirit to help cultivate that fruit in your heart!
Prayer to the Holy Spirit by St. Augustine and Prayer for a New Pentecost
Pray for the Holy Spirit to work in your life personally with the prayer from St. Augustine. Then, pray for our Archdiocese with the Prayer for a New Pentecost.
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
Breathe in me O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy.
Act in me O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy.
Draw my heart O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy.
Strengthen me O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy.
Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy. Amen.
Prayer for a New Pentecost
Father in heaven, renew your wonders in our time, as though by a new Pentecost and grant that your holy Church in Detroit, praying perseveringly and insistently with one mind, together with Mary, the mother of Jesus, and guided by Sts. Joseph and Anne, may increase the reign of the Divine Savior, the reign of truth and justice, the reign of love and peace. Amen.
The priests says, “The Lord be with you!” What do we say in response?
Begin every prayer
this week by saying, “Come, Holy Spirit.”
The Monday after Pentecost is the Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, which Pope Francis declared in 2018. Mary, Mother of the Church, pray for us!
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