Spiritual Communion, St. Leonard of Port Maurice:
In order to facilitate a practice of such great
excellence, ponder what I have to say. When the priest is about to give himself
Communion in holy Mass, do you, keeping composed externally and internally,
excite in your heart an act of true contrition, and humbly striking your
breast, in token that you acknowledge yourself unworthy of so great a grace,
make all those acts of love, of self-surrender, of humility, and the rest,
which you are accustomed to make when you communicate sacramentally, and then
desire with a lively longing to receive your good Jesus, veiled in the
sacrament for your benefit. And to kindle your devotion, imagine that most holy
Mary, or some saint, your holy advocate, is holding forth to you the sacred
particle; figure yourself receiving it, and then, embracing Jesus in your
heart, reply to Him, over and over again, with interior words prompted by love:
“Come, Jesus, my Beloved, come within this my poor heart; come and satiate my
desires; come and sanctify my soul; come, most sweet Jesus, come!” This said,
be still; contemplate your good God within you, and, as if you really had communicated,
adore Him, thank Him, and perform all those interior acts to which you are
accustomed after sacramental Communion.
Act of Spiritual Communion, St. Alphonsus de Ligouri
MY Jesus, I believe that Thou art present in the
Blessed Sacrament. I love Thee above all things and I desire Thee in my soul.
Since I cannot now receive Thee sacramentally, come at least spiritually into
my heart. As though Thou wert already there, I embrace Thee and unite myself
wholly to Thee; permit not that I should ever be separated from Thee. Amen.
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