Today on this great feast, Pentecost, the birthday of the Church… it may be appropriate to make a wish.
Most Sundays in the Easter Season, at the end of the 11:00 am, as we prepare for the next day and close up the church, one of the tasks is to blow out the Pascal Candle.
Today is different as it will be the last time as we now now enter into the second half of ordinary time in the liturgical year.
This time as I blow out the Pascal candle I will offer this prayer from Saint Pius X:
O Holy Spirit,
Divine Spirit of light and love,
I consecrate to You my understanding, my heart and my will,
my whole being to you forever.
May my understanding always submissive to Your heavenly inspirations and to the teachings of the Catholic Church, of which You are the Infallible Guide.
May my heart be ever inflamed with love of God and of my neighbour.
May my will be ever conformed to the divine will and may my whole life be a faithful imitation of the life and virtues of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, to whom with the father and You, be honour and glory forever.
Amen.
Come Holy Spirit,
Rekindle our hearts with the fire of your Divine Love.
Peace,
DG
The Deacon Guy 
Hi Brother Guy & Tammy, happy Feast of Pentecost! Thanks thanks for this reflection and prayer, which I read in the lovely park that is in front of the Carmel if Lisieux…the resting place of St Theresa the little flower! I will be saying a prayer for you and your ministry in front of the mausoleum/tomb if St Therese and 3 of her blood sisters who also became Carmelites.
I was blessed to assist this morning’s mass, where I lifted up all the clergy of our my parish and Archdiocese.
Blessings, Guy & Christine
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Thank you, Deacon Guy – beautiful and so appropriate and a great reminder! Anxious to hear how Father will explain it at Mass this morn.
Bless you! Elaine ________________________________
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