Holy Spirit Novena
To be prayed each day from May 23rd thru May 31st.
Dearest Holy Spirit, confiding in Your deep, personal love for Your Church, I am making this novena for the following request, if it be Your Holy Will to grant it:
FOR JOHN EMMETT STANTON WHO IS TO BE ORDAINED TO THE ORDER OF PRIEST
Teach him, Divine Spirit, to know and seek his last end; grant him the holy fear of God; grant him true contrition and patience. Do not let him fall into sin. Give him an increase of faith, hope and charity, and bring forth in his soul all the virtues proper to his state in life.
Make him a faithful disciple of Jesus and an obedient son of the Church. Give him efficacious grace sufficient to keep the Commandments and to receive the Sacraments worthily. Give him the four Cardinal Virtues, Your Seven Gifts, Your Twelve Fruits. Raise him to perfection in the state of life to which You have called him and lead him through a happy death to everlasting life.
I ask this through Christ our Lord, Amen.