Pentecost Sunday! Come Holy Spirit!

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Dear Brothers and Sisters,

Blessings on this Solemnity of Pentecost! The Mass Readings During the Day can be found HERE. The USCCB site was having technical difficulties this morning, so I’m using another site. I’m posting only the Sequence below trusting we can either pray over the full set of Readings on computer or at home from your Missal or Bible or listen to the Readings with great attention and devotion as we participate in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass today.

For those who may not be able physically to be present, may your spiritual Communion be devout and fruitful. Offer your desire to be united to Jesus in sacrifice and reparation for the sins of the world. Pray for the Church with Mary and pray the Holy Spirit will renew the face of the earth!

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Pentecost Sunday Sequence Veni, Sancte Spiritus

Come, Holy Spirit, come!
And from your celestial home
Shed a ray of light divine!
Come, Father of the poor!
Come, source of all our store!
Come, within our bosoms shine.
You, of comforters the best;
You, the soul’s most welcome guest;
Sweet refreshment here below;
In our labour, rest most sweet;
Grateful coolness in the heat;
Solace in the midst of woe.
O most blessed Light divine,
Shine within these hearts of yours,
And our inmost being fill!
Where you are not, we have naught,
Nothing good in deed or thought,
Nothing free from taint of ill.
Heal our wounds, our strength renew;
On our dryness pour your dew;
Wash the stains of guilt away:
Bend the stubborn heart and will;
Melt the frozen, warm the chill;
Guide the steps that go astray.
On the faithful, who adore
And confess you, evermore
In your sevenfold gift descend;
Give them virtue’s sure reward;
Give them your salvation, Lord;
Give them joys that never end. Amen.
Alleluia.
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Dear Our Lady of Sorrows, petra, inbonum, Donkey, shoyuramen, aroosi, and stoplooklisten,

Thank you all for your “hearts” - In some parishes the “Sequence” is recited and in other places it is sung. This morning in our parsih we had two members of the choir singing the “Sequence” in English. I was sorry we didn’t have copies in the pews so people could better understand the words, but hopefully, they may go back home as I did, wanting to ponder the words In the “Sequence” and in the the Readings for today, again.

May we all spend time today listening as Mary our Mother listened to the Word of God, and pondered all in her heart. As I typed this last sentence, I remembered the words of St. Louis de Montfort in his Supplement to the Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin :
…Implore Mary to lend you her heart so that you may receive her Son with her dispositions. Remind her that her Son’s glory requires that He should not come into a heart so sullied and fickle as your own, which could not fail to diminish His glory and might cause Him to leave. Tell her that if she will take up her abode in you to receive her Son - which she can do because of the sovereignty she has over all hearts - He will be received by her in a perfect manner without danger of being affronted or being forced to depart. “God is in the midst of her. She shall not be moved.”

Tell her with confidence that all you have given her of your possessions is little enough to honour her, but that in Holy Communion you wish to give her the same gifts as the eternal Father gave her. Thus she will feel more honoured than if you gave her all the wealth in the world. Tell her, finally, that Jesus, whose love for her is unique, still wishes to take His delight and His repose in her even in your soul, even though it is poorer and less clean than the stable which He readily entered because she was there. Beg her to lend you her heart, saying, “O Mary, I take you for my all; give me your heart.”…
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Totus tuus!
 
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Dear petra,

Thanks for your reply but can you be a little more specific in what makes you say “Thank you” – I’d really appreciate it. It helps me to know what the Lord may be saying – i.e. I want to know if I’m really conveying something He wants you and all of us, His flock, to hear?

May God bless all of us in special ways today as we listen to His Word, praying to His Holy Spirit to bring us into ALL TRUTH:
‘’’…But when He comes, the Spirit of Truth, He will guide you to all truth. He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and will declare to you the things that are coming… " (Jn 16:13}
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Thanks again.
 
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I’m thanking you and the Holy Spirit for the words in today’s Sequence because I’m moving and I sold my car and I can’t get to Mass which was able to start again last week in our area… I have to watch it on TV and I thank God for EWTN and Marytv.tv and CAF…
I do have a lot to be thankful for… and for YOU! Faithful!
 
Come, Holy Spirit,
send forth the heavenly
radiance of your light.

C ome, father of the poor,
come, giver of gifts,
come, light of the heart.

Greatest comforter,
sweet guest of the soul,
sweet consolation.

In labor, rest, in heat, temperance,
in tears, solace.

O most blessed light,
fill the inmost heart
of your faithful.

Without your grace,
there is nothing in us,
nothing that is not harmful.

Cleanse that which is unclean,
water that which is dry,
heal that which is wounded.

Bend that which is inflexible,
fire that which is chilled,
correct what goes astray.

Give to your faithful,
those who trust in you,
the sevenfold gifts.

Grant the reward of virtue,
grant the deliverance
of salvation, grant eternal joy.
 
Come Holy Spirit,
Fill the hearts of thy faithful people
and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love.
Send forth Thy Spirit and they will be created,
and Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.

Let us pray:

Oh God, who didst illumine
the hearts of the faithful
by the light of your Holy Spirit,
Grant, that in the same Spirit,
we may discern what is right
and ever to rejoice in His consolation.

Through Chris, our Lord.

Amen.
 
can I ask a questions… if not I’ll delete it.

it say 1 Corinthians 12:3B-7

what does the B stand for?
 
Dear petra,

Thanks for your sweet and honest reply. Yes, we all need to remember we have a lot to be thankful for in our lives because without God we can do nothing! If He did not love us so much would He have sent His Only Begotten Son to die for us and rise to and ascend to Him that they might send the Holy Spirit to keep us from eternal death? By His Grace we can believe and trust and Love Him with whole hearts.

Yes, the words in the “Sequence” encourage us to ask for an increase in His Graces and to ask with confidence for continuing growth in holiness. The fact that you sold your car and can’t physically get to Mass, is part of His allowing you to offer your sacrificial love to Him and with Him to the Father.

Yes, He provides for all our needs in Truth and in Love for us. Let us continue to be grateful praying today for all our brothers and sisters in Christ and for all those in most need of His Mercy. Thanks again, dear petra!
 
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Dear annad,

When a reference is given as for the 2nd reading of Today’s Mass in a chapter such as 1 Cor: 12 : 3B-7, it is to indicate that In the First Letter to the Corinthians, in chapter 12, verse 3 has a second part of the sentence and that is where the reference is to begin but verse 3 has a first part which would be 3A. After that first part; the second part is B where the rest of the reference then continues to verse seven: It would look like this:

3 A – Therefore, I tell you that nobody speaking by the spirit of God says, “Jesus be accursed.”

3 B – And no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the holy Spirit.

4 There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit;
5 there are different forms of service but the same Lord;
6 there are different workings but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.
7 To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit.

Hope that makes sense to you. I think in copying the reference you left off the chapter number which may have caused you some confusion. Thanks for the question. If it still doesn’t make sense please let me know. 🙂
 
Dear Stephie,

Thanks for your faith-full and loving “heart”. Hopefully this has been a blessed Pentecost Day for you, and for all our brothers and sisters in Christ. I think I mentioned to you some time ago that I was reading a book by Bishop Schneider and today after I had spent some time on the Mass Readings after Mass I went back to read more in his book, “Christus Vincit”.

Providentially today these words were in Chapter 17where the Bishop is speaking of Families and Laity:
That they should awaken in themselves the gifts they received in their baptism and confirmation – the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit…
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He mentioned especially Fortitude, Piety and Fear of the Lord. Tomorrow we celebrate the Memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church and certainly we can appreciate anew how beautifully Mary received those all the Gifts and continues to share all God’s Graces with us. Let us remember Jesus’ words: “Behold Your Mother” that we may grow in holiness!
 
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Dear goodguy,

Thanks for your “heart”! How good to see many hearts rejoicing in what the Lord has done for us in our lives, and in the lives of all for whom we pray. May we coninue to pray to the Holy Spirit that He may guide us into All Truth, (cf Jn 16:13).
 
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