Novena to the Holy Spirit.

Discussion in 'Prayer requests' started by padraig, Jul 11, 2016.

  1. padraig

    padraig Powers

    Hi all. I am starting a Novena to the Holy Spirit today and am quite looking forward to it. It is quite a while since I did a Novena and this appears to be a very, very powerful one indeed. :) Very ancient.

    But it is more fun and interesting to do it as a group so I'd love it if anyone would like to join me in this. I would especailly like it if anyone wh odoes join it has any fruits to share with us all.

    So bless you who join in and bless who who don't. :)

    Here it is here all layed out very beautifully for us all by EWTN, bless them, with full instructions included, Mother Angelica , pray for us.

    https://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/pentecost/seven123.htm#1

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  2. CathyG

    CathyG Archangels

    I'm in, Padraig!
     
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  3. padraig

    padraig Powers


    Great Cathy it will be wonderful to ahve some company. I have a feeling that the more who do this together the more powerful it will be. There was quite a big group at Pentecost for instance. I noticed last noght when thinking about the forum how many people are having powerful dreams lately and this of course is from the Holy Spirit.

    I had a dream last night about my dead mother and grandmother, both very holy ladies. I dreamt we were in the house, it was day time but it seemd quite gloomy. My ggrandmother went to the window and looked out at the gloom and turned round and said to us, 'It has gone very dark in the world. ' Then my mother turned to me and said, 'Yes Padraig it has all gone very dark' then tehy both stood looking at me . The weather here in Ireland is atrocious at the minute, very dark and gloomy.
     
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  4. padraig

    padraig Powers

  5. Joe Crozier

    Joe Crozier Guest

    Joining you in the novena.
     
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  6. Denise P

    Denise P Archangels

    Just finished Day 1. Come Holy Spirit. Come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Your well beloved spouse.
     
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  7. Child of God

    Child of God New Member

    I will pray this Novena with you Padraig
     
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  8. CathyG

    CathyG Archangels

    Wow! It isn't difficult to understand what that dream means, Padraig! I dream very rarely (or at least don't remember when I do dream). This novena speaks very strongly to what I have been asking from the Lord during the last few months. I'm so happy to join with everyone here in praying this.
     
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  9. cornhusker

    cornhusker Angels

    This is just what I need right now....I am in.
     
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  10. maryrose

    maryrose Powers

    Great inspiration. We really need the gifts of the Holy Spirit right now. I've just done Day 1.
     
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  11. bflocatholic

    bflocatholic Powers

    I'm in too!! Come, Holy Spirit!
     
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  12. Count me in!
     
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  13. PotatoSack

    PotatoSack Powers

    I am in too. I started to receive a lot in prayer after starting to pray to the holy spirit.
     
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  14. Florida Panther

    Florida Panther Jesus through Mary

    I'm in.
     
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  15. padraig

    padraig Powers

    So many joining us and maybe more. Great. :) Please do share if the Holy Spirit brings any Gifts or Lights during or at the end of the Novena. I have a feeling this will be a very powerful one. :)

    Today is the Feast of St Benedict. I noticed the reading for the Feast was on the Great Gift of the Holy Spirit , the Gift of Discernment. I take this as a postive and huge sign.

    FIRST READING Proverbs 2:1-9
    My son, if you receive my words
    and treasure my commands,
    Turning your ear to wisdom,
    inclining your heart to understanding;
    Yes, if you call to intelligence,
    and to understanding raise your voice;
    If you seek her like silver,
    and like hidden treasures search her out:
    Then will you understand the fear of the LORD;
    the knowledge of God you will find;
    For the LORD gives wisdom,
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
    He has counsel in store for the upright,
    he is the shield of those who walk honestly,
    Guarding the paths of justice,
    protecting the way of his pious ones.


    Then you will understand rectitude and justice,

    honesty, every good path.


    Wow!! You just could not get a better mass reading to mark the start of the Novena. St Benedict pray for us.

    When I was at Monte Casino in Italy the home of Western Monasticism and of St Benedict I saw this painting of St Benedict his face on fire with the Light of the Holy Spirit.

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  16. padraig

    padraig Powers

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    Augustine a.d. 354–430
    Wherefore, when our Lord breathed on His disciples, and said, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost,” He certainly wished it to be understood that the Holy Ghost was not only the Spirit of the Father, but of the only begotten Son Himself. For the same Spirit is, indeed, the Spirit of the Father and of the Son, making with them the trinity of Father, Son, and Spirit, not a creature, but the Creator. For neither was that material breath which proceeded from the mouth of His flesh the very substance and nature of the Holy Spirit, but rather the intimation, as I said, that the Holy Spirit was common to the Father and to the Son; for they have not each a separate Spirit, but both one and the same.
    Augustine The City of God Book 13 Chapter 24

    Similar evidence has been collected also concerning the Holy Spirit, of which those who have discussed the subject before ourselves have most fully availed themselves, that He too is God, and not a creature. But if not a creature, then not only God (for men likewise are called gods ), but also very God; and therefore absolutely equal with the Father and the Son, and in the unity of the Trinity consubstantial and co-eternal.
    On the Trinity Book I. Chapter 6.13
     
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  17. Booklady

    Booklady La Dolorosa

    Thank you, Padraig, I too will be praying this novena.
    Blessings,
    Booklady
     
  18. jerry

    jerry Guest

    Better late than never: i'm in.
     
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  19. padraig

    padraig Powers

    you are neither of you late. It is only the first day. The Holy Spirit is Eternal.

    A hundred years early, ten thousand years late, what is that to Him?

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  20. padraig

    padraig Powers

    I have a Holy Feeling we are all in for a few suprises before this Novena is over.

    The Holy Spirit is something of a jokester.:D
     

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