Prayers to the Holy Ghost in Connection with Visits to the Blessed Sacrament and Communion Devotions[1]
I
O HOLY Ghost, help me to receive Jesus with love and reverence. Thou art my teacher and my sanctifier, and by Thee I live. Thou givest light and strength to my soul. Jesus, hidden in the Blessed Sacrament, is my Saviour and my God. I long to be with Him, that He may abide more in me and I in Him. He is the Bread of life, the true Bread of God. I long to feed with adoration on that living Bread. Be with me, O Blessed Spirit, as I draw near to the altar, and give me always more faithfulness to Jesus and more love for Him.
II
IN the light of the tabernacle I ask Thee, O Holy Ghost, to fill my heart with pure desire for Jesus, the living Bread. Give me grace to adore Him with the holy angels, that His will may be done on earth as it is in heaven, and that His will may be done in
- ↑ From Father Rawes' "Bread of Life," a work we recommend most earnestly to devout souls.
