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 and kindle my will.

I have heard your voice, and I do not want the heart in 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 7, from the homily, the Great Unknown, by St. Jose Maria Escriva.

I would say that among the gifts of the Holy Spirit,

there is one that we all need in a special way,

the gift of wisdom.

It makes us know God and rejoice in his presence,

thereby placing us in a perspective

from which we can judge accurately the situations and events in this life. Had we

been consistent in our faith when we looked around us and contemplated the world and its history,

we would have been able to avoid feeling in our own hearts the same sentiments that filled the

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