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Acts i Presence of the a Blessed Sanament 509
Spiritual t!tommunion
BY ST. ALPHONSUS IAIGUORI
Y JESUS, I believe that Thou art truly
present in the most blessed sacrament.
I love Thee above all things and I desire to possess
Thee within my soul. Since I am unable now to receive
Thee sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my
heart. I embrace Thee as being already there, and unite
myself wholly to Thee ; never, never permit me to he
separated from Thee."
2. St. Teresa was wont to say to her spiritual daughters:
"As often as you hear Holy Mass, although you
be unable to communicate sacramentally, you can make
a spiritual communion, which is of great value." The
Council of Trent requires for a spiritual communion
an ar&d &sire, lively fatth, and fentent charzty. How
often shall we communicate sp~ritually? As often as
God inspires the holy desire, at any time, but especially
at Mass, at Btxedictzon, and at Viszts. No particular
form is required. With a contrite and loving heart,
we may simply say: "Come, dearest Jesus, come Into ,
my heart; come and satiate my longing; come and
sanctify my soul; come, my sweetest Jesus, come."
3. We read in the lives of some of the saints how
Our Lord, to satisfy their burning desire to receive
the Holy Eucharist, communicated Himself to them
in miraculous ways, as by going from the priest's
hand to St. Cathsnine of Sienna, and to blessed Imelda,
or piercing through the breast of St. Juliana Falconieri,
or as by the hands of angels or of His blessed Mother
to St. Bonaventure and St. Stanislaus. In various
ways and by signal miracles, Jesus has manifested His
approbation of s@ritual communion.
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