PENTECOST NOVENA — Day 6 | THE DAILY FEAST

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SERVICE OF LIGHT

Christ our Light!

~Thanks be to God!

Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created, alleluia!

~And you shall renew the face of Mother Earth, alleluia!

Hymn for Novena to the Holy Spirit

Flood our- dull sen-ses with- your light;

In mutual love- our hearts– unite,

Yours is the pow’r– the whole creation fills;

Confirm– our weak-, un-cer–tain wills.

From in-ner strife- grant us- release;

Turn nations to- the ways– of peace.

To fuller life– your peo–ple bring

That as– one bo-dy- we– may sing:

Praise to- the Ab-ba, Christ- the Word,

And to their Spi-rit, as- we’ve- heard,

To whom all ho-nor-, glo–ry be

Both now– and for- e-ter–nity. Amen.

Text: Veni, Creator Spiritus; tr. John W, Grant, alt. Tune: VENI CREATOR, L.M. Mode VIII

SERVICE OF THE WORD

PSALMODY

Antiphon

Proclaim it with loud songs of triumph, alleluia:

crying the news to the ends of the Earth, alleluia:

Adonai has delivered this people, Alleluia! Alleluia!

Psalm 99/100

Cry out with joy to Adonai, all the earth,

Serve Adonai with gladness,

Come into God’s Presence singing for joy!

Know that Adonai is Elohim,

God made us, to God we belong,

We are the chosen,

the sheep of God’s flock.

Go within the temple gates, giving thanks.

Enter the holy courts with songs of praise.

Give thanks to Adonai and bless the Holy Name.

Indeed how good is Adonai,

eternal, God’s compassionate love.

Our God is faithful from age to age.

Glory to the ONE and to the WORD

and to the BREATH of Love.

As always before

so now and evermore. Amen.

Proclaim it with loud songs of triumph, alleluia:

crying the news to the ends of the Earth, alleluia:

Adonai has delivered this people, Alleluia! Alleluia!

READING I JOHN 5: 4-8
Who indeed is the victor over the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God? This is the one who came through water and blood, Jesus Christ, not by water alone, but by water and blood. The Spirit is the one that testifies, and the Spirit is truth. So there are three that testify, the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and the three are of one accord. If we accept human testimony, the testimony of God is surely greater. Now the testimony of God is this, God has testified on behalf of the Son.

Responsory

R. I will send the Comforter to you, the Spirit of truth, alleluia, alleluia! V. The Spirit will declare to you the things that are to come * alleluia, alleluia! V. Glory to the Abba and the Word and the Holy Breath of Love.

GOSPEL CANTICLE

Antiphon

Holy Abba, keep in your name
those you have given me,
so that they may be one just as you and I are one, Alleluia!

Canticle of Mary

My heart + is radiant with the Lord,

My whole being delights in God my Savior.

All people now will call me blessed

For God has loved this humble handmaid.

The Almighty has shown me great favor

Holy is the NAME,

Whose mercy embraces the faithful,

From one generation to the next.

The mighty arm of God,

Scatters the proud in their own conceit,

Pulls tyrants from their thrones

While lifting up the lowly:

Fills the famished with bounty,

And reveals the emptiness of riches.

Rescues lowly Israel,

Sharing such loving kindness,

As promised to our ancestors

To Abraham and Sarah, and their descendants forever.

Glory to the One and to the Word

And to the Breath of Love

As always before

So now and evermore. Amen

Holy Abba, keep in your name
those you have given me,
so that they may be one just as you and I are one, Alleluia!

SERVICE OF PRAYER

Litany of Intercession

Let us pray that the Risen and Ascended Christ

place in us the gifts of his Spirit and the power of his love: