Our senses kindle from above, And make our hearts o’erflow with love; With patience firm and virtue high The weakness of our flesh supply. Drive far from us the foe we dread, And grant us Thy true peace instead; So shall we not, with Thee for guide, Turn from the path of life aside. Oh, may Thy grace on us bestow The Father and the Son to know, And Thee through endless times confess’d Of both th’ eternal Spirit blest. All glory, while the ages run, Be to the Father and the Son Who rose from death; the same to Thee, O Holy Ghost, eternally! Amen. Come, Holy Ghost. Come, Holy Ghost, send down those beams, Which sweetly flow in silent streams From Thy bright throne above. Come, Thou, the Father of the poor, Thou bounteous source of all our store; Come, fire our hearts with love. Come, Thou, of comforters the best, Come, Thou, the soul’s delightful guest, The pilgrim’s sweet relief. Thou art our rest in toil and sweat, Refreshment in excessive heat, And solace in our grief. O sacred Light, shoot home Thy darts, Oh, pierce the centre of these hearts, Whose faith aspires to Thee. Without Thy Godhead nothing can Have any price or worth in man; Nothing can harmless be. Lord, wash our sinful stains away, Water from heaven our barren clay; Our wounds and bruises heal. To Thy sweet yoke our stiff necks bend, To inflame our cold hearts Thy fire send; Our wandering feet repel. Oh, grant Thy faithful, dearest Lord, Whose only hope is Thy sure word; The seven gifts of Thy Spirit. Grant us in life to obey Thy grace, Grant us in death to see Thy face; And endless joys inherit. Amen. Act Of Oblation To The Holy Ghost. On my knees, before the great cloud of witnesses, I offer myself, soul and body, to Thee, eternal Spirit of God. I adore the brightness of Thy purity; the unerring keenness of Thy justice; and the might of Thy love. Thou art the strength and the light of my soul. In Thee I live and move and am. I desire never to grieve Thee by unfaithfulness to grace; and I pray with all my heart to be kept from the smallest sin against Thee. Make me faithful in every thought: and grant that I may always listen to Thy voice, and watch for Thy light, and follow Thy gracious inspirations. I cling to Thee, and give myself to Thee, and ask Thee by Thy compassion to watch over me in my weakness. Holding the pierced feet of Jesus, and looking at His five wounds and trusting to His precious blood, and adoring His opened side and stricken Heart, I implore Thee, adorable Spirit, helper of my infirmity, so to keep me in Thy grace that I may never sin against Thee with the sin which Thou canst not forgive. Give me grace, O Holy Ghost, Spirit of the Father and the Son, to say to Thee, always and everywhere, speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth. Amen. The Office of the Holy Ghost. At Matins. _V._ The grace of the Holy Ghost illuminate our senses and hearts. _R._ Amen. _V._ O Lord, open Thou my lips.