Prayers Before the Rosary

INVOCATION TO THE HOLY SPIRIT

LEADER: Come, Holy Spirit, fill all hearts with the fire of your love and the light of your truth. Send forth your spirit, and you shall make all things new.

ALL: Breathe in us, O Holy Spirit, that our thoughts may all be holy. Act in us, O Holy Spirit, that our works may be holy. Draw our hearts, O Holy Spirit, that we may love what is holy. Strengthen us, O Holy Spirit to defend all that is holy. Guard us then, O Holy Spirit, that we may always be holy. (St. Augustine)

ALL: (sing or recite) Come, Holy Spirit, creator blest, and in our souls take up your rest, come with your grace and heavenly aid, to fill the hearts, which you have made.

LEADER: Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created.

ALL: And you shall renew the face of the earth.

LET US PRAY: O God, who did teach the hearts of your faithful people by sending them the light of the Holy Spirit, grant us by the same Spirit, to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort. Through Christ our Lord, Amen.

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PRAYER BEFORE THE ROSARY

Queen of the Holy Rosary you have deigned to come to Fatima to reveal to the three shepherd children the treasures of grace hidden in the Rosary. Inspire our hearts with a sincere love of this devotion, in order that by meditating on the Mysteries of our Redemption which are recalled in it, We may be enriched with its fruits and obtain peace for the world, the conversion of sinners and of Russia, and the favor which we ask you in this Rosary (Family or Individual: here mention your request) We ask this for the greater glory of God, for your own honor, and for the good of all souls, especially of our own. Amen.