Pentecost is the name derived from the Greek word "pentekoste" which means fiftieth as Pentecost Sunday takes place on the 50th day of Easter.
Before Our Lord, Jesus Christ’s, Ascension into Heaven, Our Lord, Himself, sent His apostles back to Jerusalem to await the coming of the Holy Spirit on the first Pentecost. We have been praying the 9-Day Novena (the only novena officially prescribed by the Church), addressed to the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity. It is a powerful plea for the light and strength and love so sorely needed by every Christian.
We conclude our 9-day Novena to the Holy Spirt today, Pentecost Sunday, and summarize the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit below.
1. The Gift of Fear - I may be filled with a loving reverence toward God and may dread in any way to displease Him
2. The Gift of Piety - I may find the service of God sweet and amiable
3. The Gift of Fortitude - I may bear my cross with You and that I may overcome with courage all the obstacles that oppose my salvation
4. The Gift of Knowledge - I may know God and know myself and grow perfect in the science of the Saints
5. The Gift of Understanding - to enlighten my mind with the light of Your divine truth
6. The Gift of Counsel - I may choose the surest way of pleasing God and gaining heaven,
7. The Gift of Wisdom - I may despise the perishable things of this world and aspire only after the things that are eternal
If the gifts of the Holy Spirit are like virtues, the fruits of the Holy Spirit are the actions that those virtues produce. Prompted by the Holy Spirit, through the gifts of the Holy Spirit, we bear fruit in the form of moral action. In other words, the fruits of the Holy Spirit are works that we can perform only with the aid of the Holy Spirit. The presence of these fruits is an indication that the Holy Spirit dwells in the Christian believer.
The 12 fruits are 1. Charity (or love) - Charity is the love of God and of neighbor, without any thought of receiving something in return. 2. Joy - Joy isn't emotional, in the sense that we commonly think of joy; rather, it is the state of being undisturbed by the negative things in life. 3. Peace - Peace is a tranquility in our soul that comes from relying on God. Rather than getting caught up in anxiety for the future 4. Patience - Patience is the ability to bear the imperfections of other people, through a knowledge of our own imperfections and our need for God's mercy and forgiveness. 5. Benignity (or kindness), Kindness is the willingness to give to others above and beyond what we own them. 6. Goodness - Goodness is the avoidance of evil and the embrace of what's right, even at the expense of one's earthly fame and fortune. 7. Longaminity (or long-suffering) - Longanimity is patience under provocation. While patience is properly directed at other's faults, to be long-suffering is to endure quietly the attacks of others. 8. Mildness (or gentleness) - To be mild in behavior is to be forgiving rather than angry, gracious rather than vengeful. The gentle person is meek; like Christ Himself. 9. Faith - Faith, as a fruit of the Holy Spirit, means living our life in accordance with God's Will at all times. 10. Modesty - Being modest means humbling yourself, acknowledging that any of your successes, achievements, talents, or merits are not truly your own but gifts from God. 11. Continency (or self-control) - Continence is self-control or temperance. It does not mean denying oneself what one needs or even necessarily what one wants (so long as what one wants is something good); rather, it is the exercise of moderation in all things. 12. Chastity - Chastity is the submission of physical desire to right reason, subjugating it to one's spiritual nature
So, we conclude our 9-Day Novena and Pentecost observance to the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity, the Holy Spirit, with a Prayer to the Holy Spirt below.
Come, Holy Spirit
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Your love. Send forth Your Spirit and they shall be created and You shall renew the face of the Earth. O God, who has instructed the hearts of your faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant that by the same Holy Spirit, we may have a right judgment in all things and evermore rejoice in His consolations. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.
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