Corpus Christi - spiritual communion

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: William J ...
To: Donald ...
Sent: Sun, 6 June, 2010 11:50:17
Subject: The Body and Blood of Christ - spiritual communion

Dear Father Donald,

Out in the world, it is sadly most often that I am unable to attend Mass each day, and thus each day I unite with you at Nunraw in your celebration and reception of the Eucharist as dawn is breaking. Each of us has a favourite treasured 'formula' for spiritual communion, but there is one that may be so easily adapted from the prayer of St. Thomas Aquinas, as given for the commentary on this feast day at a web link you gave us http://dailygospel.org

What a wonderful feast day this is in the life of the Church.

What a feast of fascinating articles to inspire and encourage you have given us these recent days on your Blog - thank you!

... in Our Lord,

William

The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) - Solemnity : Lc 9,11-17

Commentary of the day
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Dominican theologian, Doctor of the Church
Prayers

“The bread of angels becomes food for pilgrims, true bread of God’s children” (Sequence of the feast)

Almighty and ever-living God, I approach the sacrament of your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. I come sick to the doctor of life, unclean to the fountain of mercy, blind to the radiance of eternal light, and poor and needy to the Lord of heaven and earth.

Lord, in your great generosity, heal my infirmity, wash away my defilement, enlighten my blindness, enrich my poverty, and clothe my nakedness. May I receive the bread of angels (Ps 78:25), the King of kings and Lord of lords (1Tm 6:15), with humble reverence, with the purity and faith, the repentance and love, and the determined purpose that will help to bring me to salvation.

May I receive the sacrament of the Lord's Body and Blood, and its reality and power. Kind God, may I so receive the Body of your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, which was born from the womb of the Virgin Mary, that I be received into his mystical Body and numbered among his members.

Loving Father, as on my earthly pilgrimage I now receive your beloved Son under the veil of a sacrament, may I one day see him Face to face in glory, who lives and reigns with you for ever. Amen.