Invocations before Holy Communion
From Blessed Sacrament Book — Little Offices, compiled by F. X. Lasance Tools
Source
| Printed in | Blessed Sacrament Book — Little Offices |
|---|---|
| Imprint | New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, Benziger Brothers |
| Scan | the Internet Archive copy |
| Approval | Nihil Obstat: REMY LAFORT, Censor Librorum (no separate date printed) Imprimatur: + JOHN CARDINAL FARLEY, Archbishop of New York Approvals dated: NEW YORK, APRIL 6, 1918 |
| Transcription | Transcribed from the scan. |
| Rights | Public domain in the United States. |
- Saints
- St. Joseph, St. Thomas Aquinas
- Prayers for
- a worthy Communion, contrition, a pure intention, salvation
Master of the First Prayerbook of Maximilian, The Mass of St. Gregory, Hours of Queen Isabella the Catholic, about 1500. Cleveland Museum of Art.
O MARY, my sweet Mother! Jesus is coming to me; hasten to my assistance; do thou prepare my heart as thou didst prepare thine own for the reception of thy beloved Son in the Holy Eucharist. Adorn the sanctuary of my soul with all those dispositions which thou knowest will make it a pleasure for Jesus to take up His abode therein.
Dear St. Joseph, beloved father mine! Prepare my heart as thou didst prepare so lovingly the crib of Bethlehem; for the same divine infant will soon repose there.
My holy guardian angel, blessed patron saints—and all ye blessed spirits who surround the altar-throne of Our Lord in profound adoration, pray for me with St. Thomas Aquinas, “that I may receive the body of the only-begotten Son of God, our Saviour Jesus Christ—the very body which He took of the Virgin Mary—in such wise that I may be found worthy to be incorporated into His mystical body, and for evermore to be numbered among His members.”
May the prayer of the Angelic Doctor be fulfilled in me: “May it be mine to receive Thee, the bread of angels, the king of kings, and lord of lords, with the seemly reverence and humility, with the true contrition and devotion, with
the blameless heart and simple faith and with the good purposes and right intention, which I needs must have that my soul be saved.
“O Father most loving, as yet a wayfarer upon earth, I am about to welcome into my heart Thine own beloved Son, hidden under His sacramental veil: may it, in Thy great goodness, be mine, in the end, for all eternity face to face to gaze upon Him.
“Who with Thee liveth and reigneth, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen.”
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