{"id":10252,"date":"2026-05-23T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/?p=10252"},"modified":"2026-05-23T15:33:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T19:33:04","slug":"come-holy-spirit-let-the-fire-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/saints-and-blesseds\/come-holy-spirit-let-the-fire-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Come Holy Spirit and fill our hearts and souls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/may19ad.jpg?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"742\" height=\"758\" data-attachment-id=\"3477\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-practices\/pentecost-sunday-2\/attachment\/may19ad\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/may19ad.jpg?fit=742%2C758&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"742,758\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;neo&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1621779412&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"may19ad\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/may19ad.jpg?fit=625%2C638&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/may19ad.jpg?resize=625%2C639&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3477\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/may19ad.jpg?w=742&amp;ssl=1 742w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/may19ad.jpg?resize=294%2C300&amp;ssl=1 294w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/may19ad.jpg?resize=624%2C637&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prayer to the Holy Spirit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>\u201cTo consider life as a vocation encourages interior freedom, stirring within the person a desire for the future, as well as the rejection of a notion of existence that is passive, boring, and banal.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Holy Spirit, I appear before you as a sinner, but I appear before you in your name. Come with me, stay with me, enter into my heart, teach me what to do and what direction to take. Show me what to choose so that, with your help, I may please you in all things. Be my counselor and the author of my purpose. You, who with God, the Father, and his son, bear the name of glorious.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">I thank you, spirit of truth. I thank you, consoler, because you brought me close to the mystery of the pierced hands and feet, the pierced side of God. Because you have again brought us close to the depth and the power of the mystery of the redemption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Come, Holy Spirit. Come. Enter deep into the hearts of those who belong to you. May each be given the manifestation of you for the common good. So that God may be all in all.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Send upon me, O Father, a new effusion of the spirit so that I may walk in a manner worthy of the Christian vocation, offering to the world the testimony of the Gospels\u2019 truth and inspiring the faithful to unite all believers in the chain of peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pope St John Paul II<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer to the Holy Spirit \u201cTo consider life as a vocation encourages interior freedom, stirring within the person a desire for the future, as well as the rejection of a notion of existence that is passive, boring, and banal.\u201d Holy Spirit, I appear before you as a sinner, but I appear before you in your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-saints-and-blesseds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7bfMR-2Fm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8137,"url":"https:\/\/www.fatherboniface.org\/wordpresshome\/spiritual-practices\/come-holy-spirit\/","url_meta":{"origin":10252,"position":0},"title":"Come Holy Spirit . 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