November 6
Daily Gleanings of the Saintly LifeSixteenth Wednesday after Trinity
Strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man. Ephesians 3:16.
"O God, Who dost wondrously refresh Thy Church with Thy precious Body and Blood, pour upon her Thy quickening Spirit: that by partaking of the heavenly Mystery while she lives on Thee upon earth, she may attain to live with Thee in heaven." Faint not, God will strengthen thee. If thou prayest, Angels shall waft thy prayer in their golden censers, and thine Almighty Intercessor shall present it before His Father; and unseen, perhaps unfelt, the Holy Spirit shall de- scend upon thee, and thou shalt, day by day, be renewed not by any power over thine own thoughts, nor by any change of thine own feelings wrought by thyself, but by His might. At Holy Communion pray Him, when He vouchsafeth to come under thy roof, in that deep prayer of the Church, to cleanse thy sinful body by His Body and wash thy soul in His precious Blood; and He shall dwell in thee and thou in Him, thy impurity cleansed by His purity, thy lukewarmness kindled by His love, thy pride changed into His lowliness, that in the clean heart which He has created He may dwell, and with the right spirit which He has renewed thou mayest love and obey and be conformed unto Him, and thy everlasting joy be that thou art wholly not thine own, but His; one spirit with Him, through His Spirit which dwelleth in thee.
O Holy Ghost! Thou fire of love, Enkindle with Thy flame my will; Come with Thy strength, Lord, from above, Help me Thy bidding to fulfil; Forgive that I so oft have done What I as sinful ought to shun; Let me with pure and quenchless fire Thy favour and Thyself desire.