Reading: Brothers… You must love your neighbor as yourself. If you go snapping at one another and tearing one another to pieces, take care: you will be eaten up by one another. Instead, be guided by the SPIRIT, and you will no longer surrender to self-indulgence. The desires of self-indulgence are always in opposition to the SPIRIT. When self-indulgence is at work, the results are obvious: sexual vice, impurity, and sensuality, the worship of false gods and sorcery, antagonisms and rivalry, jealousy, bad temper and quarrels, disagreements, factions and malice, drunkenness, orgies and all such things… On the other hand, the fruits of the SPIRIT are LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, KINDNESS, GOODNESS, TRUSTFULNESS, GENTLENESS and SELF-CONTROL; no law can touch such things as these. All who belong to CHRIST JESUS have crucified self with all its passions and desires…Since we are living by the SPIRIT, let our behavior be guided by the SPIRIT and let us not be conceited or provocative and envious of one another. (Ga 5, 15-25)                                                                                  

Meditation: The Gifts of the HOLY SPIRIT perfect the supernatural virtues by enabling us to practice them with greater docility to divine inspiration. As we grow in the knowledge and love of GOD under the direction of the HOLY SPIRIT, our service becomes more sincere and generous, the practice of virtue more perfect. Such acts of virtue leave the heart filled with joy and consolation and are known as Fruits of the HOLY SPIRIT. These Fruits in turn render the practice of virtue more attractive and become a powerful incentive for still greater efforts in the service of GOD.

Prayer: Come, O Divine SPIRIT, fill my heart with Thy Heavenly FRUITS, Your Charity, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faith, Mildness, and Temperance, that I may never weary in the service of GOD, but by continued faithful submission to Your inspiration may merit to be united eternally with YOU in the love of the FATHER and the SON. Amen.

Our FATHER  and Hail Mary, (once ), Glory be (7 times)

Prayer for the Seven Gifts of the HOLY SPIRIT