Come, Holy Spirit!
The tradition of making a novena to the Holy Spirit starting nine days before Pentecost is very old - it was started by the apostles and Our Lady, who spent nine days in prayer before the first Pentecost! There are many different novena prayers to the Holy Spirit. You can use the one below, or find a different one in a prayerbook.
It is important to pray to the Holy Spirit, Who is "the Promise of the Father" (Acts 1:4) for His gifts and blessings. Let's prepare ourselves spiritually for the great Feast of Pentecost, and ask the Holy Spirit for whatever we need.
Novena Prayer to the Holy Spirit
O Holy Spirit, You are the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity! You art the Spirit of truth, love, and holiness, proceeding from the Father and the Son, and equal to Them in all things! I adore You and love You with all my heart. Teach me to know and to seek God, by Whom and for Whom I was created. Fill my heart with a holy fear and a great love of Him. Give me sorrow for my sins, and patience, and do not let me fall into sin.
Increase in me faith, hope, and charity, and bring forth in me all the virtue proper to my state of life. Help me to grow in the four cardinal virtues, Your seven Gifts, and Your twelve Fruits.
Make me a faithful follower of Jesus Christ, an obedient child of the Church, and a help to my neighbor. Give me the grace to keep the Commandments and to receive the Sacraments worthily. Raise me to holiness in the state of life to which You have called me, and lead me through a happy death to everlasting life. Through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Grant me also, O Holy Spirit, Giver of all good gifts, the special favor for which I ask (here mention your intention), if it be for Your honor and glory and for my own good.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Litanies to the Holy Spirit. . .
More prayers. . .
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