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PART X
www.oremusapostolate.com PRAYERS FOR HOLY COMMUNION
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PREPARATION FOR COMMUNION
O
MOST sweet and loving Jesus, I the most
unworthy of all thy creatures propose now to
receive the most holy sacrament of thy Body and
Blood, as the most effectual remedy for all my miseries of
body and of soul; with most certain confidence and with
most steadfast faith that I shall thus not only obtain the
supply of all my need, but also most perfectly please thy
supreme Majesty and all the inhabitants of heaven. But O
thou supreme and ineffable Majesty, before whose face
the heavens are not clean and its strong pillars tremble,
how shall I, a vile worm of the earth, a very sink of all
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most loathsome corruption and misery, dare to receive
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thee, who art the Fountain and Source of all purity, into
my polluted heart! How shall I presume to receive thee
into a heart all set around with briers and thorns, reeking
with the foul vapours of carnal and worldly lusts?
Wherefore, O thou most compassionate Lover of my
soul, I blush exceedingly and am confounded before thee,
and quake with fear lest I should outrage thee by
receiving thee into an abode so foul, so unworthy of thy
Majesty. But, O most merciful Jesus, who hast said with
thy gracious lips that they that are whole need not the
physician, but they that are sick, who didst invite the
blind and the lame, the poor and the needy, to thy
supper; behold, as one of them, yea, as the poorest and
most wretched of them all, I will draw near to the most
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