Third Day: Fruits of Long-Suffering and Mildness –
Hymn: – Veni Creator –
Let us prostrate ourselves before the majesty of the most Holy Trinity, and uniting our dispositions with those of our blessed Lady and the holy apostles in the upper room at Jerusalem, let us say one Our Father and one Hail Mary, to obtain, by the merits of Jesus ascended, the fruits of the Holy Ghost – peace and patience.
Our Father… Hail Mary…
O blessed and happy apostles of Our Lord, who in the upper room did receive the Holy Spirit with such fulness that thou wert sweetly inebriated with divine love, we congratulate thee with the most humble and lively affection and contemplate thy graces with a holy envy. We beseech thee, by that love which thou dost bear the Holy Spirit, Who thus filled thee with His special benedictions, obtain for us efficacious aid rightly to practice that brotherly concord, that continual prayer, and that tender devotion to Mary, whereby we can obtain even as thou didst obtain, the coming of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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O let us fall and worship Him,
The love of Sire and Son,
The consubstantial breath of God,
The co-eternal One!
Ah! see, how like the Incarnate Word,
His blessed self He lowers
To dwell with us invisibly,
And make His riches ours,
Most loving Spirit! Mighty God!
Sweet must Thy presence be,
If loss of Jesus can be gain,
So long as we have Thee!
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Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful, and kindle in them the fire of Thy love.
V. Send forth Thy spirit, and they shall be created.
R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth.
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May the infusion of the Holy Spirit, O Lord, purify our hearts, and by the inward sprinkling of His gracious dew make them fertile in all good works; through Our Lord Jesus Christ. In the unity of the same. Amen.
May the blessing of almighty God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, descend upon us now, and abide with us always. Amen