Catholic News outlasts are reporting that The Holy Father in his General Audience has asked The Catholic Faithful to keep a copy of this prayer with them to invoke The Holy Spirit, using The Sequence-Prayer from The Liturgy used on The Feast of Pentecost.
“When I don’t know what to do, I say come Holy Spirit!
When I am weak or sad, or about to fall, I say come Holy Spirit!” declared The Holy Father.
“Come, Holy Spirit, come! And from your celestial home, shed a ray of light divine! Come, come, Father of the poor! Come, Source of all our store! Come, within our bosoms shine. You, of comforters the best; You the soul’s most welcome Guest; Sweet refreshment … Come,” the pope said, reciting the first half of the prayer for the pilgrims gathered in Vatican Hall.
Pope Francis added that if Catholics did not have the prayer on hand, they could simply pray “Come, Holy Spirit” — as “the Madonna and the Apostles prayed during the days when Christ ascended into heaven.”
An ardent supporter of The Charismatic Renewal in The Church, His great devotion to The Holy Spirit is well documented.
As Cardinal in Buenos Aires Argentina he met once a week with Pentecostal Protestant Pastors of Buenos Aires to pray for unity and a fresh Pentecost, and is said to be the first Pope in modern times who prays in Tongues.
One young Pastor, the late Rev.Tony Palmer became a spiritual son to him.
Pentecostal Pastor Palmer was one of the first persons The Holy Father called from Rome upon being elected Pope-
He has met several times as Pope with The Pentecostal leaders in Rome, and has welcomed a deligation of American Pentecostal Pastors Including Kenneth Copeland and James Robinson for three days of prayer and dialogue-at The Apostolic Palace, prompting Kenneth Copeland to say, “ This is a Spirit-filled man; The Reformation is over.”
(Kenneth Copeland was responding to the monumental document of agreement signed by Lutheran Leaders and The Vatican in a joint declaration on Justification.
It was Martin Luther’s views on Justification that sparked The Protestant Deformation and 500 years of chaos and 400,000 Protestant Sects and counting)
Pentecostal Healing Evangelist Benny Hinn who has also been a guest of The Holy Father claimed two years ago at a large healing crusade in Nigeria, -quote-“Do you know that more Catholics get healed than Pentecostals?
Do you know why?
It’s because of their Eucharist!”
“While there are many mountains of theological differences to overcome, all Christians are united in Christ by virtue of their Faith and Baptism in The Power of The Holy Spirit,” offered William Timothy Lester of OLOFOB to Evening Light News.
“Countless Evangelicals are finding their way Home to The Church Jesus founded.
This is a Grace of The Holy Spirit.”
The full text of The Sequence Prayer for The Feast of Pentecost is HERE:
Let us pray:
PENTECOST SUNDAY SEQUENCE
Come, Holy Spirit, come.
And from your celestial home
Shed a ray of light divine.
Come, Father of the poor.
Come, source of all our store.
Come, within our bosoms shine.
You, of comforters the best;
You, the soul’s most welcome guest;
Sweet refreshment here below;
In our labor, rest most sweet;
Grateful coolness in the heat;
Solace in the midst of woe.
O most blessed Light divine,
Shine within these hearts of yours,
And our inmost being fill.
Where you are not, we have naught,
Nothing good in deed or thought,
Nothing free from taint of ill.
Heal our wounds, our strength renew;
On our dryness pour your dew;
Wash the stains of guilt away:
Bend the stubborn heart and will;
Melt the frozen, warm the chill;
Guide the steps that go astray.
On the faithful, who adore
And confess you, evermore
In your sevenfold gift descend;
Give them virtue’s sure reward;
Give them your salvation, Lord;
Give them joys that never end.
Amen. Alleluia.
