Holy Spirit Novena Prayers
Holy Spirit Novena Prayers
*9 Days Until Pentecost*
The Holy Spirit Novena is the original novena. Jesus asked the apostles to pray for nine days to prepare for the coming of the Holy Spirit. The prayers begin nine days before Pentecost (or the Friday of the 6th week of Easter).
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Holy Spirit Novena Prayers
The First Novena
Who Prayed the First Novena?
Jesus asked the Apostles and disciples to pray in preparation for the coming of the Holy Spirit. They prayed for nine days until Pentecost and it was, in fact, the first novena.
What Jesus Told Them
After His Resurrection, Jesus announced to His Apostles that, for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. (Acts 1:5).
At His Ascension
At the time of His Ascension into Heaven, He directed them to pray, telling them that they would receive power when the Holy Spirit would come upon them. (Acts 1:8)
Jesus said that they would be His witnesses to the ends of the earth.
9 Days of Prayer
They devoted themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus (Acts 1:14) for nine days until Pentecost, when they received the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
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CREDITS
The LOGO image of Our Lady of Grace is original artwork by Martin Lariviere in 2009. We have the artist’s permission (my son). It is our exclusive trademark logo image.
A beautifully photographed sky by Donald Tong inspired the website’s colour scheme. Cropped portions of it are the background for the footer Bible verse. He shared it as a free download on pexels.com.
Raphael painted The Sistine Madonna circa (1513-1514). We made circular cut-outs from the original image.
Juan Bautista Maino painted Pentecost circa 1615 to 1620.
We cropped a painting by Pompeo Batoni painting of the Holy Spirit from circa 1740 to 1743.
In 1711, Adriaen van der Werff painted Pentecost.
Josef Ignaz Mildorfer painted Pentecost on an altar in a church in Hungary in the 1750s. Then it was moved to the Hungarian National Gallery.
Jean-Auguste Domique Ingres painted Jesus handing the keys to St. Peter in 1820. The scene is after the Resurrection.
Benvenuto Tisi painted The Ascension circa 1510-1520.
Our information is from general knowledge, experience, and shared internet sources. We’d like you to use it as a starting point for your research to verify facts and build a reference list.
IN REVIEW
Jesus asked the apostles to pray for nine days to prepare for the coming of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit Novena was the original one. It is the only novena officially sanctioned by the Church.
The prayers begin on the Friday of the 6th week of Easter or nine days before Pentecost. We posted the prayers for each day.