You're listening to the 10-day devotion to the Holy Spirit on the St. Jose Maria Institute podcast.

The prayers and reflections for this devotion are taken from the Handbook of Prayers,

published by Midwest Theological Forum.

This long-standing custom of the church in preparation for Pentecost is an opportunity to ask the Holy Spirit

to strengthen our hearts and make firm resolutions for our interior lives.

Come Holy Spirit, enlighten my understanding in order that I may know your commands,

strengthen my heart against the snares of the enemy, and kindle my will. I have heard your voice,

and I do not want to harden my heart and resist saying, later, tomorrow.

Right now, lest there be no tomorrow for me.

Spirit of truth and of wisdom,

spirit of understanding and of counsel,

spirit of joy and of peace.

I want what you want,

because you want it, as you want it, when you want it.

Day 1

From the homily, the Great Unknown by St. Jose Maria Iscriva.

Having just read in the Acts of the Apostles about Pentecost, the day when the Holy Spirit

came down upon the Lord's disciples.

We are conscious of being present at the great display of God's power, with which the church's life began to spread among the nations.

The victory Christ achieved through his obedience, his offering of himself on the cross, and his resurrection, his triumph over sin and death, is

revealed here in all its divine splendor.

The disciples, witnesses of the glory of the risen Christ, were filled with the strength of the Holy Spirit.

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