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Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of
your faithful and enkindle in them the fire of your
love.25 Heavenly King, Consoler
Spirit, Spirit ofTruth, present everywhere and filling all
things, treasure of all good and source of all life, come
dwell in us, cleanse and save us, you who are All_Good.26
2672 The Holy Spirit, whose anointing permeates
our whole 695 being, is the interior Master of e. He is
the artisan of the living tradition of prayer. To be sure,
there are as many paths of prayer as there are persons who
pray, but it is the same Spirit acting in all and with
all. It is in the communion of the Holy Spirit that e is
prayer in the Church. In communion with the holy Mother of God 2673 In prayer the Holy Spirit unites us to the
person of the only 68g Son, in his glorified humanity,
through which and in which our filial prayer unites us in
the Church with the Mother of Jesus.27
1 2674 Mary gave her consent in faith at the
Annunciation and ~ F maintained it without hesitation at
the foot of the Cross. Ever since, her
motherhood has extended to the brothers and sisters of her
Son who still journey on earth surrounded by dangers
and difficulties 28 Jesus, the only mediator, is
the way of our prayer; Mary, his mother and ours, is
wholly transparent to him: she shows the way
(hodigitria), and is herself the Sign of the
way, according to the traditional iconography of East and
West. 2675 Beginning with
Marys unique co-operation with the 970 working of
the Holy Spirit, the Churches developed their prayer to the
holy Mother of God, centring it on the person of Christ
manifested in his mysteries. In countless hymns and
antiphons 512 expressing this prayer, two movements
usually alternate with one another: the first
magnifies the Lord for the great
things he did 2619 for his lowly servant and
through her for all human beings;29 the second entrusts
the supplications and praises of the children of God to
the Mother of Jesus, because she now knows the humanity
which, in her, the Son of God espoused.
2676 This twofold movement of prayer to Mary has found a
privileged expression in the Ave Maria:
Hail Mary [or Rejoice, Mary j: The greeting of
the angel Gabriel opens this 722 prayer. It is God
himself who, through his angel as intermediary, greets Mary.
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