(Tuesday) Light immortal! Light Divine! Visit Thou these hearts of Thine, and our inmost being fill!
The Gift of Knowledge enables the soul to evaluate created things at their true worth—in their relation to God. Knowledge unmasks the pretense of creatures, reveals their emptiness, and point out their only true purpose as instruments in the service of God. It shows us the loving care of God even in adversity, and directs us to glorify Him in every circumstance of life. Guided by its light, we put first things first and prize the friendship of God beyond all else. “Knowledge is a fountain of life to him that possesses it.”
Prayer: Come, O Blessed Spirit of Knowledge, and grant that I may perceive the will of the Father, show me the nothingness of earthly things, that I may realize their vanity and use them only for Thy glory and my own salvation, looking ever beyond them to Thee and Thy eternal rewards. Amen. Our Father and Hail Mary ONCE. Glory be SEVEN TIMES. Act of Consecration, Prayer for the Seven Gifts
Act of Consecration
On my knees before the great multitude of heavenly witnesses, I offer myself, my soul and body to You, Eternal Spirit of God. I adore the brightness of Your purity, the unerring keenness of Your justice, and the might of Your love. You are the Strength and Light of my soul. In You I live and move and have my being. I
desire never to grieve You by unfaithfulness to grace and I pray with
all my heart to be kept from the smallest sin against You. Mercifully
guard my every thought and grant that I may always watch for Your
light, and listen to Your voice, and follow Your gracious inspirations. I cling to You and give myself to You and ask You, by Your compassion to watch over me in my weakness. Holding
the pierced Feet of Jesus and looking at His Five Wounds, and trusting
in His Precious Blood and adoring His opened Side and stricken Heart, I
implore You, Adorable Spirit, Helper of my infirmity, to keep me in Your
grace that I may never sin against You. Give me grace O
Holy Spirit, Spirit of the Father and the Son to say to You always and
everywhere, “Speak Lord for Your servant is listening.” Amen.
Prayer for the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit
O
Lord Jesus Christ Who, before ascending into heaven did promise to send
the Holy Spirit to finish Your work in the souls of Your Apostles and
disciples, deign to grant the same Holy Spirit to me that He may perfect
in my soul, the work of Your grace and Your love. Grant
me the Spirit of Wisdom that I may despise the perishable things of this
world and aspire only after the things that are eternal, the Spirit of
Understanding to enlighten my mind with the light of Your divine Truth,
the Spirit of Counsel that I may ever choose the surest way of pleasing
God and gaining heaven, the Spirit of Fortitude that I may bear my cross
with You and that I may overcome with courage all the obstacles that
oppose my salvation, the Spirit of Knowledge that I may know God and
know myself and grow perfect in the science of the Saints, the Spirit of
Piety that I may find the service of God sweet and amiable, and the
Spirit of Fear that I may be filled with a loving reverence towards God
and may dread in any way to displease Him. Mark me, dear Lord, with the sign of Your true disciples and animate me in all things with Your Spirit. Amen.
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