Road to Pentecost Daily Prayer Booklet
Author: Good News magazine
A Joint CTS & GoodNews Magazine Publication
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As Christians, we celebrate Christmas and Easter, but PENTECOST the third element of the Good News of Salvation seems to be rather neglected. This prayer guide is a tool to help Christians to be open to a personal Pentecost in their own lives, and to pray for a new Pentecost on the earth, so that the fullness of the Good News of Salvation can be proclaimed and experienced with life-changing power.
WHY? Our world is a mess! Wars, family breakdown, destruction of the environment, economic crises, social injustice, divisions amongst Christians: the list could go on. God, our all-knowing Creator, has already sent his Son Jesus as Saviour of the world. Through his birth, death, and resurrection, Jesus restored the human race to right order with God. But do we see that reality on our planet? Do we see the kingdom of God in our midst?
Before He ascended into heaven, Jesus told his disciples to wait for the promise of the Father about which you have heard me speak; for John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit... [and] you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you (Acts 1:4,5,8). It is this power of the Holy Spirit that puts into effect the saving action of Jesus. The third Person of the Blessed Trinity has been sent by the Father and the Son to complete the work of salvation on earth and to bring us the fullness of grace.
At the turn of the 19th century an Italian nun called Elena Guerra was inspired to encourage Christians to emphasize this neglected feast and the essential role of the Holy Spirit. She wrote to Pope Leo XIII who then instructed the whole Church to pray a novena (nine days of prayer) for a new outpouring of the Spirit - a new Pentecost. This prayer was answered in a marvelous way, which is described in the Introduction to the Novena.
But Pentecost must be on-going. It is for this reason that this booklet has been compiled, to help Christians prepare for this wonderful feast by walking with Jesus for forty days after Easter like those disciples on the road to Emmaus when,"beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them what referred to him in all the scriptures" (Luke 24:27), so that we can then pray with expectation the novena first offered to us by Blessed Elena Guerra.
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