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Holy Spirit, third person of the blessed Trinity, you are indwelling in the soul of humankind. Pour forth your created fruit of love in our hearts. This is the whole fruit to enfold us that we may be an outpouring of your love to all. In our own strength we cannot yield it in our hearts, it is your miraculous gift to abide in our hearts.

Subdue our selfish nature that sin may no longer continue to control us, empowering us to allow our Lord Jesus Christ to live his love and light through the window of our soul.

Immeasurable spirit in your earthly undertaking for God you are personified in the observed transformation of a new creation in man, from the selfish nature to the divine nature.

May love raise us to exhibit the true fruit of an unselfish love through our goodwill, surrender, and yearnings of our Lord Jesus Christ. May we remember what God’s servant St. Paul wrote: “Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never ends.”

Make us ready that we may shed a mirrored gleam of that light. May we accept and return God’s tenderness and mercy so that we may fully love our fellowman according to your will in this indifferent world.

May we mirror our Lord’s example of laying down his life, listening to his calling to live our lives with a real love for others.

More than all else love provides a way out of the difficulties of our life. It is the foremost blessing imparted by God to his children. In the devotion to God may our beings be enabled to show compassion to all we are associated with. Our actions will be evidence of our surrender to his will. “Happy are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy.” May mankind have a compassion that is of the tenderness, devotion and serenity of our Lord Jesus.

Lord, may we use our gifts as branches to your vine of love that undertakes in the building of your kingdom on earth. May we give to the needy, fulfilling your will from heaven. Lord Jesus you started this work on earth and you rely on your companions to carry this on until you return to your earthly kingdom.

Lord, give us the miraculous fruit of the Holy Spirit love, to empower us to naturally give that real love and so have your promised peace on earth, that we shall have eternally in your heavenly home. Amen.