Asking for the Holy Spirit

..Ask for the Holy Spirit...

Heavenly Father, through your Son Jesus fill me completely with your Holy Spirit that I may overflow with your abundant love. Seal me with this same Spirit and anoint me so that, guided with His power, I may aspire today to that which you have purposed for me. I pray that this day I will walk with you as your child in making decisions after your Heart. I pray for uprightness in my relationships with you and others. Father grant me the grace to work with you in bringing into right order my emotions and passions. And give me strength to follow through with firm purpose the plans you lay before me, even in the face of difficulty and trial. Finally, Father, fill me with gifts from on high – holy fear of offending you, true piety, in my relationships godly fortitude, docility to godly counsel, knowledge to conduct my life aright, understanding and perspective of the way things fit together and wisdom to guide my thoughts, words and conduct. I pray that you bring me more into the likeness of your Son, Christ Jesus in all things through the power of the Holy Spirit. All this I ask in the Name of Jesus Christ who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. Amen.

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An Hour of Mercy prayers

You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls, and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fount of Life, unfathomable Divine Mercy, envelop the whole world and empty yourself out upon us.

O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us. I trust in You

Sala ya asubuhi

Ee Bwana nitakutukuza,kwa maana umeniinua

Unisafishe kwa hisopo nami nitakuwa safi,unioshe nami nitakuwa mweupe kuliko theluji


Ee Mungu uniumbie Moyo safi,

uifanye upya Roho iliyotulia ndani yangu

usinitenge na uso wako wala Roho yako Mtakatifu usiniondolee

unirudishie furaha ya wokovu wako,

unitegemeze kwa roho ya wepesi


Ee Mungu unichunguze uujue moyo wangu,

unijaribu uyajue mawazo yangu,uone kama iko njia iletayo majuto ndani yangu

ukaniongoze katika njia ya milele


Unifanye kusikia fadhili zako asubuhi,kwa maana nimekutumaini wewe

Unijulishe njia nitakayoiendea,kwa maana nakuinulia nafsi yangu Isa 48:17

Uniponye na adui zangu maana nimekukimbilia wewe


Unifundishe kuyatenda mapenzi yako kwa maana ndiwe Mungu wangu

Roho yako mwema aniongoze kwenye nchi sawa


Mawazo ya moyo wangu na maneno ya kinywa changu

yapate kibali mbele zako Ee Mungu mwokozi wangu


Uniwezeshe kukaa kwako na kukuhimidi daima,

nguvu zangu zote na zitoke kwako

na kila
nitakachokifanya leonikifanye katika nguvu za Roho wako Mtakatifu


Unitumie vile utakavyobaba,

mapenzi yako juu ya maisha yangu kwa siku ya leo yakatimie


Niwezeshe kutumika kwa upole,utii na unyenyekevu nikitembea na wewe daima

sikuzote na siku moja tupate kufurahi pamoja na watakatifu wako mbinguni.AMINA

Prayer to the Holy Spirit for a Favor

O Holy Spirit, You are the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity. You are 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 for Him. Give me compunction and patience, and do not let me fall into sin.

Increase faith, hope, and charity in me and bring forth in me all the virtues 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, 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 [name the favor here], if it be for Your honor and glory and for my well being. Amen.

Glory Be, etc.

Prayer for Daily Neglects

ETERNAL FATHER, I offer You the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with all its love, all its sufferings, and all its merits.

First, to expiate all the sins I have committed this day and during all my life. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and shall ever be, world without end. Amen.

Second, to purify the good I have done poorly this day and during all my life. Glory be, etc.
Third, to supply for the good I ought to have done, and that I have neglected this day and all my life. Glory be, etc.

Act of Concecration to the Holy Ghost

On my knees before the great multitude of heavenly witnesses, I offer myself, 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 am. 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, so to keep me in Your grace that I may never sin against You. Give me grace, O Holy Ghost, Spirit of the Father and the Son, to say to You always and everywhere, "Speak, Lord, for Your servant heareth." Amen.