PENTECOST NOVENA — Day 6 | THE DAILY FEAST

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Fourth Day before Pentecost

Invitation to Worship

Christ, our Love, who promised to send

us the Holy Spirit, Come, let us adore. Alleluia!

O Holy One,+ open my lips.

~And my mouth will proclaim your praise.

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, alleluia;

~And kindle in us the fire of your love, alleluia!

Hymn for Novena to the Holy Spirit

O Ho-ly Spi-rit, by- whose breath

Life rises vi-brant out– of death:

Come to– create, renew–, inspire;

Come, kin–dle in- our- hearts– your fire.

You are- the seek-er’s sure- resource,

Of burning love- the liv–ing source,

Protec–tor in the midst– of strife,

The gi–ver and- the- Source– of Life.

In You- God’s en-ergy- is shown

To us your va-ried gifts– make known,

Teach us– to speak: teach us– to hear:

Your is– the tongue- and- yours– the ear.

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

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

To whom– all honor, glo–ry be

Both now– and for- e-ter–nity. Amen,

_{Text: VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS; tr. John Grant, alt. Tune: VENI CREATOR}

PSALMODY

Antiphon

Adonai, hear my voice when I call, alleluia.

Of you my heart has spoken: ‘Seek God’s Face.”

It is your face, Adonai, that I seek; hide not your face, Alleluia, Alleluia!

Psalm 41/42

Like the deer that yearns

for running streams,

so my soul is yearning

for you, my God.

My soul is thirsting for God,

the God of my life;

when can I enter and see,

the face of God.

My tears have become my bread,

by night, by day,

as I hear it said all day long:

“Where is your God?”

Why are you cast down my soul,

why groan with- in me?

Hope in God and praise the Holy One:

my savior and my God.

Deep is calling on deep

in the roar of mighty waters;

your torrents and all your waves

have swept over me.

By day Adonai will send

compassion and loving kindness;

by night I will sing a song of thanks;

praise the God of my life.

Why are you cast down my soul,

why groan within me?

Hope in God and praise the Holy One:

my savior and my God.

Glory to the ONE and to the WORD

And to the BREATH of Love;

as always before,

so now and evermore. Amen.

O Adonai, hear my voice when I call, alleluia.

Of you my heart has spoken: ‘Seek God’s Face.”

It is your face, Adonai, that I seek; hide not your face, Alleluia, Alleluia!

READING I John 5: 1-3
Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is begotten by God, and everyone who loves the Abba loves also the Begotten One. In this way we know that we love the children of God when we love and obey God’s commandments. For the love of God is this, that we keep the commandments. And these commandments are not burdensome, for whoever is begotten by God conquers the world. And the victory that conquers the world is our faith.

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.

Canticle of Zachariah

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!

Blessed + be Adonai, the God of Israel,

Who visits this people to set us free

Raising for us a sign of salvation

In the house and family of David.

God promised throughout past ages

In words of holy prophets

To save us from our enemies,

And from the control of our oppressors.

Adonai favored our ancestors

And remembered the sacred covenant.

The pledge to Abraham and Sarah

Is now renewed for us;

That freed from the grip of our foes

We might worship without fear

And be both just and holy

For the rest of our days.

And you, child, called “prophet of the Most High,”

Will go ahead to prepare the way,

By teaching this people of salvation

Through forgiveness of their sins.

For the loving compassion of the Holy One

As the Rising Sun will shine upon us

To illumine the darkness and dispel death’s shadow

To guide our feet on the way of peace.

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: