EJACULATION AT THE ELEVATION OF THE MASS AND AT THE EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
My Lord and my God!
These words are to be said with faith, piety, and love, while looking upon the Blessed Sacrament, either during the Elevation in the Mass, or when exposed on the altar.
Indulgence of 7 years and 7 quarantines. — Pius X, May 18, 1907.
Visit to the Blessed Sacrament During the Forty Hours' Devotion
THE prayer for forty hours together before the Blessed Sacrament, in memory of the forty hours during which the sacred body of Jesus was in the sepulcher, began in Milan, about the year 1534. Thence it spread into other cities of Italy, and was introduced into Rome, for the first Sunday in every month, by the Archconfraternity of the Most Holy Trinity of the Pilgrims (founded by St. Philip Neri, in the year 1548), and, for the third Sunday in the month, by the Archconfraternity of Our Lady of Prayer, called La Morte, in the year 1551.
This prayer of the Forty Hours was established forever by Pope Clement VIII, for the whole course of the year, in regular continuous succession, from one church to another, commencing on the first Sunday in Advent. This Pope was moved to establish this devotion by the public troubles of holy Church, in order that, day and night, the faithful might appease their Lord by prayer, before the Blessed Sacrament
