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 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 9, from the homily, the Great Unknown, by St. Jose Maria Escriva.

The Holy Spirit is not an artist who draws the divine substance in us, as though we were alien to it.

It is not in this way that he leads us to a resemblance with God, but rather being God and proceeding

from God, he himself marks the hearts of those who receive him as a seal upon wax.

It is this way the communication of his own life and resemblance.

He restores nature, according to the beauty of the divine model, and returns us our resemblance to God.

Let us see how this truth applies to our daily lives.

Let us describe, at least in general, the way of life that will bring us to deal in a familiar

manner with the Holy Spirit, and together with Him, the Father and the Son.

We can fix our attention on three fundamental points,

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