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.

In the name of the Father, of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen. 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 did not want to harden my heart and resist saying,

Later, tomorrow.

Right now, lest there be no tomorrow for me.

O 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 10, from the homily, the great unknown, by St. Jose Maria Escriva.

In the midst of the limitations that accompany our present life, in which sin is still

present in us, to some extent, at least, we Christians perceive with a particular clearness

all the wealth of our divine affiliation, when we realize that we are fully free because we are doing

our father's work, when our joy becomes constant because no one can take our hope away.

It is then that we can admire at the same time all the great and beautiful things of the earth

can appreciate the richness and goodness of creation, and can love with all the

strength and purity for which the human heart was made. It is then that sorrow for sin does not

denigrate into a bitter gesture of despair or pride, because sorrow and knowledge of human

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