Name: Come Holy Spirit Prayer by Prayfor2
Duration: 2 min

Veni, Sancte Spiritus, or Come, Holy Spirit, is a prayerful hymn attributed to 13th century writer Stephen Langston, Archbishop of Canterbury. Also called the Golden Sequence, the hymn was added to the Roman Missal in the 16th century, and is sung at masses around the feast of Pentecost. 

Let’s pray it today, inviting the gift of the Holy Spirit to flow through us, rekindling the fire of God’s love in our hearts.

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.
You, of comforters the best;
You, the soul’s most welcome guest;

Sweet refreshment here below;
In our labor, rest most sweet;
Grateful coolness in the heat;

Solace in the midst of woe.
O most blessed Light divine,
Shine within these hearts of yours,

And our inmost being fill!
Where you are not, we have naught,
Nothing good in deed or thought,

Nothing free from taint of ill.
Heal our wounds, our strength renew;
On our dryness pour your dew;

Wash the stains of guilt away:
Bend the stubborn heart and will;
Melt the frozen, warm the chill;

Guide the steps that go astray.
On the faithful, who adore
And confess you, evermore

In your sevenfold gift descend;
Give them virtue’s sure reward;
Give them your salvation, Lord;

Give them joys that never end. 
Amen. Alleluia.

This is Mike Kelly with Prayfor2, encouraging you to make these two minute reflections part of your daily prayer habit. Listen anytime at Prayfor2.com, on Soundcloud, YouTube,  the Redeemer Radio app.

Come Holy Spirit Prayer

2 minute prayer reflections on the daily scripture readings of the Church.

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