Day Eight – Friday, June 6, 2025 | 7th Week of Easter
Prayed in preparation for Pentecost
Bend the stubborn heart and will, melt the frozen warm the chill. Guide the steps that go astray!
The GIFT OF WISDOM
The Gift of Wisdom is the most perfect of the gifts, embodying all the others just as charity embraces all the virtues. It enables the soul to see and judge all things in the light of God, drawing us to relish what is divine and eternal. Of Wisdom it is written: “All good things came to me with her, and innumerable riches through her hands”. This gift strengthens our faith, fortifies our hope, perfects our charity, and inspires the practice of virtue to its highest degree. Wisdom enlightens the mind to discern the beauty, power, and greatness of heavenly things. In this divine perspective, the fleeting pleasures of the world lose their appeal, while the Cross of Christ becomes sweet, echoing His words: “Take up your cross and follow Me, for My yoke is sweet and My burden light.” With Wisdom, we are drawn more deeply into the mystery of God’s love and are given a foretaste of eternal joy.
PRAYER: Come, O Spirit of Wisdom, and reveal to my soul the mysteries of heavenly things their exceeding greatness, power, and beauty. Teach me to love what is eternal above all that passes away,
to value heavenly joys beyond earthly satisfactions, and to walk each day with eternity in mind. Strengthen my faith, fortify my hope, and perfect my love, that I may live not by sight but by trust in You.
Let the cross of Christ become my joy, and may I find sweetness in following Your holy will. Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful, and enkindle in them the fire of Your love. Amen. 🙏
Our Father and Hail Mary ONCE
Glory Be to the Father SEVEN TIMES
ACT OF CONSECRATION TO THE HOLY SPIRIT: On my knees 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 have my being. 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, 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, looking at His Five Wounds, 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: 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 of 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 overcome with courage all obstacles to my salvation,
- The Spirit of Knowledge that I may know God and myself and grow in holiness,
- The Spirit of Piety that I may find joy in serving God lovingly,
- And the Spirit of Fear of the Lord that I may be filled with reverence and avoid all that may offend You.
Mark me, dear Lord, with the sign of Your true disciples and animate me in all things with Your Spirit. Amen. 🙏
Novena to the Holy Spirit: Prayed in preparation for Pentecost (link below)
Novena to the Holy Spirit for the Seven Gift | EWTN | https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/devotions/novena-to-the-holy-spirit-for-the-seven-gifts-309
The Novena to the Holy Spirit 2025 | https://dailyreflectionswithphilomena.com/the-novena-to-the-holy-spirit/
Daily Reflections with Philomena | https://dailyreflectionswithphilomena.com/