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 and 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. Enkindle 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. 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 2. From the homily, the Great Unknown by St. Jose Maria Iscriva.

The profound reality that we see in the text of Holy Scripture is not a remembrance from the past,

from some golden age of the church which has since been buried in history.

Despite the weaknesses and the sins of every one of us, it is the

reality of today's church and the church of all time. I will ask the Father, our Lord told his

disciples, and he will give you another counselor to dwell with you forever. Jesus has kept his promise.

He has risen from the dead and in union with the Eternal Father,

He sends us the Holy Spirit to sanctify us and to give us life.

The strength and the power of God light up the face of the earth.

The Holy Spirit is present in the Church of Christ for all time, so that it may be always and in everything a sign raised up before all nations, announcing to all people the goodness and the love of God.

In spite of our great limitations, we can look up to heaven with confidence and joy.

God loves us and frees us from our sins. The presence and action of the Holy Spirit and the Church are a foretaste of eternal happiness,

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