To the Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit, we appear before you as sinners, but gathered together in your

name. Come among us, stay with us, enter into our hearts, teach us what to

do and what direction to take. Show us what to choose so that, with your

help, we may please you in all things. Be our counselor and the author of

our purposes; you who with God the Father and his Son bear the name of

glorious; you who love justice, do not let us become its destroyers. May our

ignorance not lead us astray, success not deceive us, may our own interest

or that of others not fail us. Bind us closely to you with the gift of your

grace so that in you we may be one and never distant from the truth. And

since we are gathered together in your name, may justice guided by love

govern us in all things, so that we may do nothing against your will in the

present, and by our good acts earn eternal reward for the future.

Amen.

Pope John Paul II

June 8, 1991