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When faced with physical or emotional pain, Bible verses about healing provide strength, comfort, and encouragement. Read and share these 50 healing scriptures.
Come, Holy Spirit is a Christian prayer for guidance. [1] It is discussed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church , paragraphs 2670–2672. [ 2 ] It is used with the Catholic Church , as well as some Anglican and Lutheran denominations.
The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit is one of several lists of virtues, vices and blessings in Christian devotional literature which follow a scheme of seven. [12] Others include the seven deadly sins, the seven virtues, the seven last words from the cross, the seven petitions of the Lord's Prayer, and the Beatitudes. [13]
In the Byzantine Rite, whenever a priest is officiating, after the Lord's Prayer he intones this augmented form of the doxology, "For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory: of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages.", [k] and in either instance, reciter(s) of the prayer reply "Amen".
The Slavonic text, however, could be read as asking God to replace one kind of spirit or breath with another, with the implication that the first kind of spirit (line 1) does not come from God to begin with. This could lead to a dualist reading of the prayer, opposing the unvirtuous 'spirit of man' to the virtuous 'spirit of God.'
It has six-line verses and hence must be sung to a hymn tune in 88 88 88 meter, such as "Melita" by John Bacchus Dykes, [13] or else adapted in part to the CM with alleluias of "Lasst uns erfreuen". [14] Dryden's first verse is: Creator Spirit, by whose aid The world's foundations first were laid, Come, visit every pious mind;
References to the Holy Spirit appear throughout Acts, for example Acts 1:5 and 8 [55] stating towards the beginning, "For John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit. ...Ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you", referring to the fulfillment of the prophecy of John the Baptist in Luke 3:16 ...
The first three verses represent the version of the hymn which is generally used in the Roman Office, where the final verse is designed to be the same across a number of different hymns. [ 3 ] The Plain Chant melodies used with the Latin version of the hymn changes according to the seasons in the Liturgical Year .