O Holy Spirit, God of light and love, I adore You and thank You for all Your gifts, especially for having given me a mind to know You and a heart to love You. From the depths of my abyss of darkness, I cry unto You, beseeching You to shine the bright rays of the Gift of Knowledge upon me. Without this divine light I will go astray again, just as I have done so often in the past, and I will be lost for all eternity, by seeking my happiness in creatures and making them my final end. On the contrary, with the Gift of Knowledge I will regard created things only as a means to go to God; I will use them only inasmuch as they lead me to Him, and I will abstain from them if they would turn me away from Him. Thus I will have a holy indifference to wealth or poverty, honor or scorn, health or illness, a long life or a short life; I will love and seek only the adorable will of God in all things. And when it shall please His holy will for me to undergo sorrow and humiliation, being enlightened by the Gift of Knowledge concerning the value of tribulations, I will embrace them joyfully as a means of finding God more surely and of possessing Him more perfectly. Then nothing in the world will ever again deter me from my final end; on the contrary, everything will help me to make progress, to know Him more clearly, to love Him more ardently and to serve Him more faithfully, while awaiting the moment when at last I shall possess Him in heaven, see Him face to face in the light of glory, and love Him perfectly throughout eternity. Amen. O Mary, most worthy Spouse of the Holy Spirit, obtain for me Knowledge which makes the Saints. 7 Hail Mary, 7 Glory Be.