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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. For the complete text, visit the Marquette University Faith website.
- A Prayer For Pentecost to Reflect and Rejoice
- A Prayer to The Holy Spirit
- A Prayer to Welcome The Holy Spirit Into Our Day
- Thank You For The Spirit
- A Prayer to Access The Power of The Holy Spirit
- What Happened at Pentecost?
- When Is Pentecost This Year?
- How Do We Celebrate Pentecost?
- Other Fun Facts About Pentecost
- More Scriptures to Pray Over For Pentecost This Year
Need a prayer for Pentecost to celebrate the church’s birthday? We’ve compiled one below as well as several Scriptures you can pray over this day. Dear Heavenly Father, on this day, 2000 years ago, you inaugurated the church by having the Holy Spirit indwell in your believers. We rejoice that you have allowed us, men and women, Jew and Gentile, to ...
Holy Spirit, You are God. I praise you because you are holy, and I thank you for dwelling in my heart. Thank you for working in my life. You guided me into salvation, renewed my dead spirit, and you opened my eyes to the Truth. Thank you. Help me to see you more clearly – to recognize your movement in my life. Make me more sensitive to you so I can...
Holy Spirit, we welcome You. Holy Spirit, we know that You are the Counselor of Truth, our help in need, and the One who fills us with the Spirit of God. Holy Spirit, we pray this very day to come into greater communion with You. You so graciously work to intercede for us to the Father, but also to comfort us with Your peace that goes beyond all un...
Dear Jesus, Thank You for leaving the Holy Spirit here with us as our protection and provision. Thank you that we can have that power at work in our lives if we are only mindful of it and remember to draw from it. Please help me to be obviously different to everyone I encounter and to reflect You in my life so that people will know, “The Lord is wi...
Lord, I’ll be honest, sometimes I forget that I even have the power of the Holy Spirit in me. I stumble about like I’m spiritually blind rather than walk surefooted like an empowered child of the King. Help me to access the power that You have already given me. Help me to understand what that power looks like. Help me to understand the person of th...
It’s important to note, as stated in this our article on 5 Important Things to Know About Pentecost Sunday, that Pentecost fell during the Jewish festival of Shavouth. Not only did this allow people from all walks of life to head to Jerusalem and hear Peter’s message, but the holiday also celebrated God’s provision. God did not have the two events ...
Pentecost always falls 50 days after Easter takes place (or 50 days total, including Easter). The holiday always occurs on a Sunday. Pentecost in 2022 falls on Sunday, June 5. Below we’ve compiled the dates of Pentecost for the next few years. 2023: Sunday, May 28 2024: Sunday, May 19 2025: Sunday, June 8
Many Christian churches won’t do much, in terms of celebration, beyond having a sermon about Pentecost on Pentecost Sunday. However, some more traditional denominations may do more to celebrate the holiday. Prior to Pentecost, people in the church may participate in something known as novena: nine days of prayer. After all, the disciples, after Jes...
Pentecost fulfills prophecies: “Pentecost fulfills the ancient prophecies of Holy Scripture. Peter was saying that “the festival of harvest” had then yielded untold bushels of cataclysmic change in the universe as a result of the empowering of the disciples by the Holy Spirit.” —Dr. Michael A. Milton Peter would not have been the church’s first cho...
Romans 8:26: “Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.” 1 Corinthians 14:15: “What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my min...
Pentecost Sunday litanies. Here are a few Pentecost-themed litanies you could use in your Pentecost Sunday worship service. A litany is a form of communal prayer in which a leader reads a prayer and the congregation responds. Litany 1 (opening litany) Litany 2. Litany 3. First Reader (pouring water):
Mar 20, 2024 · Prayer to Turn the World Again. “Living God, eternal Holy Spirit, let your bright intoxicating energy which fired those first disciples fall on us to turn the world again. Hear this prayer for your love’s sake. Amen.”. Collect of the Day for the Day of Pentecost, Year C, A New Zealand Prayer Book / He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa (1988), 614.
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St. Francis Borgia, SJ (1510–1572) By Bert Ghezzi. From Voices of the Saints. St. Francis Borgia, a relative of Pope Alexander VI, King Ferdinand of Aragon, and Emperor Charles V, joined Spain’s imperial court at age eighteen. The next year he married Eleanor de Castro, who bore him eight children. In 1539, shortly after experiencing a ...
2 days ago · Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Christ, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy. Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father.
