Sunday Fidgets - Pentecostal Birthday Cake

After church today we celebrated Pentecostal Sunday with a Red Velvet Birthday Cake. The boys helped me make it. We sang Happy Birthday to the Church. We enjoyed the cake. The boys, especially my Kindergartner, had a lot of great questions. They were very interested in this Holy Day. They asked about the Holy Spirit. Who is he, where is he, what does he do? Why was this the church's birthday? Why red? This could have been the most interactive, and constructive conversation about religion I have shared with my boys. I love moments like this. It was practically effortless, yet nothing short of amazing.

Final prayer in Pentecost Novena

Tomorrow will bring the end of the novena I have been praying. I have enjoyed my first Novena. It has been rewarding to take a little quite time to ask for grace. In the words of Fr. John "prayer is its own gift". I plan to add this to my prayer on the last day. It is a prayer I learned this past year, and I like it a lot. Today I am sharing it with you.


Come, Holy Spirit
Replace the tension within us
with a holy relaxation.
Replace the turbulence within us
with a sacred calm.
Replace the anxiety within us
with a quiet confidence.
Replace the bitterness within us
with the sweetness of grace.
Replace the darkness within us
with a gentle light.
Replace the coldness within us
with a loving warmth.
Replace the night within us
with your light.
Replace the winter within us
with your spring.
Straighten our crookedness.
Fill our emptiness.
Dull the edge of our pride.
Sharpen the edge of our humility.
Light the fires of our love.
Quench the flames of our lust.
Let us see ourselves as you see us
That we may see you as you have promised
And be fortunate according to your word.
Blessed are the pure of heart,
For they shall see God. Amen

Pentecost Novena

I am looking up information on Novena's. A group I am a part of is doing a Novena in honor of Pentecost. Pentecost Sunday is May 31st. Nine days from today. (Novena means nine) I am inviting you to join us. Once a day for nine days you recite the Prayer to the Holy Spirit. It honors the nine days the apostles spent in prayer, between the Ascension and Pentecost. It honors what would be the very first novena.

I am sorry I am getting this out so late. Just starting mine and realized others may want to do this too. Even if you don't start on Saturday to end on Pentecost, it doesn't mean you are left out. Start on the day you choose. The Lord will hear you.

Prayer to the Holy Spirit:

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and kindle in us the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit, and we shall be created, and You will renew the face of the earth. O God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit instructs the hearts of the faithful, grant that by that same Spirit we may be ever wise and rejoice in his consolations. We make our prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen