Ave Maria Meditations
Come, Holy Spirit, Creator blessed, and in our souls take up your rest; come with your grace and heavenly aid to fill the hearts which you have made.
Come, O Spirit of Wisdom, dispose my heart that I may learn to value and love the good things of heaven and prefer them to all earthly delights. Show me, moreover, the way whereby I may obtain and possess them forever.
Come, O Spirit of Understanding, enlighten my mind that I may apprehend and embrace all the mysteries of salvation and deserve to behold the Light eternal in your light and to attain the full knowledge of You and the Father and the Son.
Come, O Spirit of Counsel, be with me in all the affairs of this passing life; incline my soul onto good, withhold it from evil, and guide me through the straight path of your commandments to the desired goal of everlasting salvation.
Come, O Spirit of Fortitude, give strength to my heart in every trouble and mishap; grant me power against the baneful efforts of my enemies, lest, being overcome, I be parted from you, Oh God, the sovereign Good.
Come, O Spirit of Knowledge, but I understand the emptiness of worldly goods. Teach me to despise them and use them for your glory alone, and to prize your everlasting treasures beyond all earthly things.
Come, O Spirit of Godliness, stir up my heart to true fervor and a holy love of the Lord my God, that I may ever seek Him in all my devotions and may find Him in true love.
Come, O Spirit of Fear of the Lord, make my flesh tremble with fear of you, that I may set the Lord before me always, and may carefully avoid whatever may displease the most pure eyes of your divine Majesty.
Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful. And kindle in them the fire of your love.
Let us pray: Oh God who, by the light of the Holy Spirit, has taught the hearts of your faithful, grant that we may be truly wise in the same Spirit and ever rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
