The Gift of Understanding

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit, and they shall be created. And you shall renew the face of the earth. Let us pray: O God, who taught the hearts of your faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant us by that same Spirit to be truly wise, and ever to rejoice in his consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Let us pause in silence, and bring to mind the intention you are praying for.

In the app, your own saved intention rests here during the silence. The narration stays the same for everyone.

The entrance of your words gives light. It gives understanding to the simple.

Understanding is light for the mind - the gift that lets the truths you already believe sink past your thoughts and into your bones, until they become the way you see.

Come, Holy Spirit of understanding, and enlighten my mind. Let me not only know about you, but truly know you. Open the words of Scripture to me, open the meaning of my own life to me, and let your truth become the lens through which I see everything else. Amen.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Holy Spirit, soul of my soul, I adore you. Enlighten me, guide me, strengthen me, and console me. Tell me what I should do, and give me the grace to do it. I promise to be open to whatever you ask of me, and to accept all that you allow to happen to me. Only show me your will. Amen.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.