Day 1 (Friday after The Ascension) – Reading: Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath’s day’s journey away. When they had entered the city, they went to the room upstairs where they were staying, Peter, and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of James. All these were constantly devoting themselves to prayer, together with certain women, including the mother of Jesus, as well as his brothers. (Acts 1 12-14)

Day 2 (Saturday) Praying for the Gifts of Wisdom and Charity - Reading: ‘I ask the glorious Father and God of our Lord Jesus Christ to give you his Spirit. The Spirit will make you wise and let you understand what it means to know God. My prayer is that light will flood your hearts and that you will understand the hope that was given to you when God chose you.’ (Eph 1 17-18)

Prayer: Divine Wisdom, Holy Spirit, in your grace, transform the world through us. Cleanse our hearts and renew our spirits. With serving hands and liberating action, we humbly pray for courage and inspiration to do your will beginning today. In Jesus’ name, we hope and pray, Amen.

Day 3 (Sunday) Praying for the Gift of Truth - Reading: ‘If you love me you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you an Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him because he abides with you and he will be in you.’ (John14 15-17)

Day 4 (Monday) - Praying for the Gift of Courage - Reading: ‘A new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will remove from your body the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you, and make you follow my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances.’ (Ezekiel 36 26-27)

Day 5 (Tuesday) - Praying for the Gifts of Peace and Healing - Reading: When it was evening on that day the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said ‘Peace be with you.’ After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, ‘Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.’ When he said this, he breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any they are retained.’ (John 20 19-23)

Day 6 (Wednesday) - Praying for the Gifts of Communication and Openness - Reading: ‘When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. (Acts 2 1-4)

Prayer: God, you invite us to dance in delight, shaping and forming in figures of grace. We move to the pulse of creation’s music and holding and finding our strengths. Together we move into patterns of freedom, and rejoice to be part of the making of the earth. In the steps of Jesus we reach to our partners, touching sharing of hope. We whirl and spin the Spirit’s rhythm, embracing the world with our circles of joy. Together we dance for salvation and justice and rejoice to be part of the moving of love.

Day 9 (Saturday) - Praying for the Gift of Reverence - Reading: He said, ‘Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.’ Now there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a sound of sheer silence. (1 Kings19 11-12)

Pentecost Sunday - Praying for the Gift of the Holy Spirit - Reading: There is in her a spirit that is intelligent, holy, unique, manifold, subtle, mobile, clear, unpolluted, distinct, invulnerable, loving the good, keen, irresistible, beneficent, humane, steadfast, sure, free from anxiety, all-powerful, overseeing all, and penetrating through all spirits that are intelligent, pure and altogether subtle. For wisdom is more mobile than any motion. Because of her pureness she pervades and penetrates all things. For she is a breath of the power of God, and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty; therefore nothing defiled gains entrance in her. She is a reflection of eternal light, a spotless mirror of the working of God, and an image of his goodness. Although she is but one, she can do all things, and while remaining in herself, she renews all things she reaches mightily from one end of the earth to the other, and she orders all things well. (Wisdom 7 22-27, 8 1)

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