Come Holy Spirit

Posted by Lorene

Have you ever had a time in your life when someone has given you something or said, “I guarantee this will change your life?” 


Decent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost

I have had two encounters that stand out in my mind.  One is a  little blue Pieta prayer booklet that my cousin gave me about 12 years ago when I was making a visit to Miami.  He said, “this book will change your life,” and it has definitely been a great source of novenas, prayers, and special devotions of the saints that I would not have otherwise known about. 

The other came more recently and I have not yet missed a day of doing it.  I was at a healing Mass a few months ago and the priest told us that there is a prayer, Veni, Creator Spiritus, he says every day when he wakes up in the morning because it gives “order” to his day.  Well, that immediately caught my attention because I thought, “what working mother wouldn’t want a little extra order to her day?”  Here are the first few lines of the prayer:

            Come Holy Spirit Creator blest

            And in our souls take up thy rest,

            Come with thy grace and heavenly aid,

            To fill the hearts which thou has made……

I find myself saying it upon waking in the morning, but on extra challenging days I say it more than once.  There is something so comforting about invoking the Holy Spirit to fill not only our hearts and souls, but those of the people around us.  You can watch a beautiful video of the prayer sung in Latin here:

As I recently read in a book entitled Having a Mary Spirit: Allowing God to Change Us from the Inside Out  "If we only realized the difference the Spirit can make in our lives- just as He has done throughout the centuries.  For He’s the same quickening power that turned Peter from shifting sand into solid rock upon which Christ could build His church.  He’s the transforming power that turned Saul, a murdering persecutor of the body of Christ, into Paul, a church planting father of the faith.  It wasn’t until the Spirit came, in fact, that Jesus’ disciples made any kind of impact on their world.”

May we find time to ask the Holy Spirit to comfort us and be our helper in our daily tasks so that we can minister to those we love.  The job can seem so overwhelming at times, yet God’s love for us is greater than any task or struggle we will encounter.