After Communion

O GOOD Jesus, O sweet Jesus, O Jesus most lovely, O Jesus my only salvation and my consolation; and whence is this to me that thou shouldst come unto me, and not abhor to enter into my most polluted heart, defiled as it is with such exceeding stains and sins? Blessed be thy coming unto me, and blessed the sweetness of the love which hath constrained thee to visit me, thy poor and worthless creature. I cast myself now in the very dust before thy Face with the most profound humility and due reverence, and I kiss thy most sacred Feet, and adore thee; and I most humbly beseech thee that thou wouldst forgive me for having received thee, my Lord, with so great negligence, distraction, and lack of devotion. [A priest may add: for having stood at thine altar and touched and handled thee with so little reverence, and for having received, &c.]

Pardon me, O most tender Jesus, and through thy life-giving death blot out my great iniquity, and vouchsafe thyself to supply all my defects and satisfy for all my negligences. Wherefore, I beseech thee, deign to receive this my communion [or, this my sacrifice and communion] into thy sacred Heart, and offer it to God the Father with all the love and all the availingness with which thou didst offer thyself upon the cross.

And now, O good Jesus, I offer and make over to thee my most unworthy heart, beseeching thee that thou wouldst wash it in that most precious water which thy divine love caused to gush forth from thy sweetest Heart, fairer and more fragrant than the rose, glowing as a furnace with the ardour of thy love; and that thou wouldst sprinkle and revive it with the sweetest wine of thy most sacred Blood, pressed from thy divine Heart, as from a cluster of ripe grapes in the winepress of thy cross. Amen.