This year, Mother’s Day and Pentecost Sunday are just a week apart. Here’s a prayer to the Holy Spirit that you can say for your mom. You could even say it for nine days and give her the gift of a novena! (If you don’t remember what a novena is, ask your mom!) If your mom has entered eternal life, you can still pray it – she may not need the prayers, but the love you offer by saying it is not without value!
I based this prayer on St. Paul’s description of the fruit of the Spirit: “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control” (Gal. 5:22-23).
Come, Holy Spirit, pour into the heart of my mother the fullness of your life. Breathe into her your Spirit of love, enliven her with your joy, comfort her with your peace, impart to her your patience, and wrap her in your kindness. May she grow in your generosity, abide in your faithfulness and be renewed every day by your gentleness. Fill every emptiness in her heart and in her life with the power of your presence and the quiet of your healing love. As a mother bonds with her child, may my mother be bound to you in the depths of God’s own heart, O Spirit of wisdom, Spirit of love, Spirit of Jesus, Spirit of joy. Amen.
Mary Cassatt, The Banjo Lesson, 1893