February: the month dedicated to the Holy Spirit
MONTH of FEBRUARY dedicated to the HOLY SPIRIT
Consecration to the Holy Spirit
O Holy Spirit Love that proceeds from the Father and the Son Inexhaustible source of grace and life to you I wish to consecrate my person, my past, my present, my future, my desires, my choices, my decisions, my thoughts, my affections, all that belongs to me and all that I am. All those I meet, who I think I know, who I love and everything with which my life will come into contact: everything is benefited by the Power of your Light, your Warmth, your Peace. You are Lord and you give life and without your Strength nothing is without fault. O Spirit of Eternal Love come into my heart, renew it and make it more and more like the Heart of Mary, so that I can become, now and forever, the Temple and Tabernacle of Your Divine presence.
Hymn to the Holy Spirit
Come, Creator Spirit, visit our minds, fill the hearts you created with your grace.
O sweet Comforter, gift of the Most High Father, living water, fire, love, holy soul chrism.
Finger of the hand of God, promised by the Savior, radiate your seven gifts, arouse the word in us.
Be light to the intellect, burning flame in the heart; heal our wounds with the balm of your love.
Defend us from the enemy, bring peace as a gift, your invincible guide will protect us from evil.
Light of eternal wisdom, reveal to us the great mystery of God the Father and the Son united in one Love. Amen.
Crown to the Holy Spirit
O God come to save me
O Lord, make haste to help me
Glory to the Father ...
As it was in the beginning ...
Come, O Spirit of Wisdom, detach us from the things of the earth, and infuse us love and taste for the things of heaven.
Holy Father, in the name of Jesus send your Spirit to renew the world. (7 times)
Come, O Spirit of Intellect, brighten our mind with the light of eternal truth and enrich it with holy thoughts.
Holy Father, in the name of Jesus send your Spirit to renew the world. (7 times)
Come, O Spirit of Council, make us docile to your inspirations and guide us on the path of health.
Holy Father, in the name of Jesus send your Spirit to renew the world. (7 times)
Come, O Spirit of Fortitude, and give us strength, constancy and victory in the battles against our spiritual enemies.
Holy Father, in the name of Jesus send your Spirit to renew the world. (7 times)
Come, O Spirit of Science, be Master to our souls, and help us put your teachings into practice.
Holy Father, in the name of Jesus send your Spirit to renew the world. (7 times)
Come, oh Spirit of Piety, come to dwell in our heart to possess and sanctify all its affections.
Holy Father, in the name of Jesus send your Spirit to renew the world. (7 times)
Come, O Spirit of Holy Fear, reign over our will, and make us always willing to suffer every evil rather than sin.
Holy Father, in the name of Jesus send your Spirit to renew the world. (7 times)
Let's pray
Your Spirit, Lord, come and transform us internally with His gifts: create in us a new heart, so that we can please you and conform to your will. For Christ our Lord. Amen
Sequence to the Holy Spirit
Come, Holy Spirit, / send us from heaven / a ray of your light.
Come, father of the poor, / come, giver of gifts, / come, light of hearts.
Perfect comforter; / sweet host of the soul, / sweetest relief.
In fatigue, rest, / in the heat, shelter, / in tears, comfort.
O most blessed light, / invade the intimate / heart of your faithful.
Without your strength, / nothing is in man, / nothing without fault.
Wash what is sordid, / bathe what is arid, / heal what is bleeding.
Fold what is rigid, / warm what is cold, / straighten what is sidetracked.
Give to your faithful, / who only trust in you, / your holy gifts.
Give virtue and reward, / give holy death, / give eternal joy.
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
by Paul VI
Come, Holy Spirit, and give me a pure heart, ready to love Christ the Lord with the fullness, depth and joy that you alone know how to instill. Give me a pure heart, like that of a child who knows no evil except to fight it and flee it. Come, Holy Spirit, and give me a big heart, open to your inspiring word and closed to any petty ambition. Give me a big and strong heart capable of loving everyone, determined to bear for them every trial, boredom and tiredness, every disappointment and offense. Give me a big, strong and constant heart until the sacrifice, happy only to palpitate with the heart of Christ and to humbly, faithfully and courageously fulfill the will of God. Amen.
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
of John Paul II
Come, Holy Spirit, come Comforter Spirit, come and console the heart of every man who cries tears of despair. Come, Holy Spirit, come Spirit of light, come and free the heart of every man from the darkness of sin. Come, Holy Spirit, come Spirit of truth and love, come and fill the heart of every man who cannot live without love and truth. Come, Holy Spirit, come, Spirit of life and joy, come and give every man full communion with you, with the Father and with the Son, in eternal life and joy, for which it was created and for which it is intended . Amen.
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
of Sant'Agostino
Come into me, Holy Spirit, Spirit of wisdom: give me your gaze and your inner hearing, so that you do not attach me to material things but always seek spiritual realities. Come into me, Holy Spirit, Spirit of love: pour charity more and more into my heart. Come into me, Holy Spirit, Spirit of truth: grant me to come to the knowledge of the truth in all its fullness. Come to me, Holy Spirit, living water that spurts for eternal life: do me the grace to come to contemplate the face of the Father in life and endless joy. Amen.
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
of San Bernardo
O Holy Spirit, soul of my soul, in you alone I can exclaim: Abbà, Father. It is you, O Spirit of God, who make me capable of asking and you suggest what to ask. O Spirit of love, arouse in me the desire to walk with God: only you can arouse it. O Spirit of holiness, you scan the depths of the soul in which you live, and you cannot bear even the slightest imperfections in it: burn them in me, all of them, with the fire of your love. O sweet and sweet Spirit, direct my will more and more towards yours, so that I can know it clearly, love ardently and perform it effectively. Amen.
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
of Saint Catherine of Siena
O Holy Spirit, come into my heart: by your power draw him to you, O God, and grant me charity with your fear. Free me, O Christ, from any bad thoughts: warm me and inflame me with your sweetest love, so every pain will seem light to me. Holy my Father, and my sweet Lord, now help me in all my actions. Christ love, Christ love. Amen.
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
of Santa Teresa D'Avila
O Holy Spirit, it is you who unites my soul to God: move it with ardent desires and light it with the fire of your love. How good you are to me, O Holy Spirit of God: be forever praised and blessed for the great love that you place on me! My God and my Creator is it possible that there is someone you don't love yourself? For a long time I have not loved you! Forgive me, Lord. O Holy Spirit, grant my soul to be all of God and to serve him without any personal interest, but only because he is my Father and loves me. My God and my everything, is there anything else I could wish for? You alone are enough for me. Amen.
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
by Frère Pierre-Yves of Taizé
Spirit that hovers over the water, calms within us the dissonances, the restless fluxes, the noise of words, the whirlwinds of vanity, and makes the Word that recreates us arise in silence. Spirit that in a sigh you whisper the Name of the Father to our spirit, come to gather all our desires, make them grow in a beam of light that is answer to your light, the Word of the new Day. Spirit of God, the sap of love of the immense tree on which you graft us, that all our brothers appear to us as a gift in the great Body in which the Word of communion matures.