ACTS OF ADORATION +

0 most adorable Jesus, dwelling in the tabernacle! prostrate before the throne of Thy veiled majesty, I, Thy unworthy servant, beseech Thee to receive my profound adoration. I firmly believe that Thou art really present in the Holy Eucharist, as powerful, as amiable, and as adorable as Thou art in heaven.

With the angels of heaven I adore Thee. Thou hast mercifully hidden the splendor of Thy majesty, lest it should deter us from approaching Thy sanctuary; I believe that Thou dwellest on our altars not only to receive our adoration, but to listen to our petitions, to remedy our evils, to be the strength and nourishment of our souls, our powerful Helper, our Refuge, and our Sacrifice.

I hope in that boundless mercy which detains Thee a Prisoner of love in the tabernacle. I love that infinite goodness which induced Thee to institute this Holy Sacrament of the Altar, in which Thou dost communicate Thyself so liberally and so wonderfully to Thy creatures.

I thank Thee for so convincing a proof of Thy love and ardently wish that I could worthily acknowledge all the blessings I have ever received from this fountain of grace and mercy.

I sincerely regret that this precious pledge of Thy love is received by many Christians with so much coldness and indifference. I wish to make amends for my own ingratitude and for all those sinful acts of my life, by which 1 have wounded Thy loving sacred heart.

I adore Thee, 0 my God, present in the Holy Eucharist, as my Creator, my Preserver, and my Redeemer. I recognize Thee as my only Master; I offer Thee all that I have, all that I am, all that depends on me; I offer Thee my mind to think of Thee, my will to serve Thee, my body to labor and to suffer for Thy love.

I am Thine; I give myself to Thee; I consecrate myself to Thee; I abandon myself to Thee; I wish to live and to die for love of Thee.

Amen

ACTS OF THANKSGIVING +

We adore Thee, Christ, and we bless Thee.
Because by Thy holy cross Thou hast redeemed the world.

I adore Thee, eternal Father, and I give Thee thanks for the infinite love with which Thou didst deign to send Thy only-begotten Son to redeem me. and to become the food of my soul.

I offer Thee all the acts of adoration and thanksgiving that are offered to Thee by the angels and saints in heaven, and by the just on earth.

I praise, love, and thank Thee with all the praise, love, and thanksgiving that are offered to Thee by Thine own Son in the Blessed Sacrament; and I beg Thee to grant that He may be known, loved, honored, praised, and worthily received by all, in this Most Divine Sacrament.

I adore Thee, eternal Son, and I thank Thee for the infinite love which caused Thee to become man for me, to be born in a stable, to live in poverty, to suffer hunger, thirst, heat, cold, fatigue, hardships, contempt, persecutions, the scourging, the crowing with thorns, and a cruel death upon the hard wood of the cross.

I thank Thee, with the Church militant and triumphant, for the infinite love with which Thou didst institute the Most Blessed Sacrament to be the food of my soul. I adore Thee in all the consecrated hosts throughout the whole world, and I return thanks for those who know Thee not, and who do not thank Thee.

Would that I were able to give my life to make Thee known, loved, and honored by all in this sacrament of love, and to prevent the irreverence and sacrileges that are committed against Thee!

I love Thee, divine Jesus and I desire to receive Thee with all the purity, love, and affection of Thy blessed Mother, and with the love and affection of Thy own most pure heart. Grant, 0 most amiable Spouse of my soul! in coming to me in this Most Holy Sacrament, that I may receive all the graces and blessings which Thou dost come to bestow on us, and let me rather die than receive Thee unworthily.

I adore Thee, eternal Holy Ghost, and I give Thee thanks for the infinite love with which Thou didst work the ineffable mystery of the Incarnation, and for the infinite love with which Thou didst form the sacred body of Our Lord Jesus Christ out of the most pure blood of the Blessed Virgin Mary, to become in this sacrament the food of my soul. I beg Thee to enlighten my mind, and to purify my heart and the hearts of all men, that all may know the benefit of Thy love, and receive worthily this Most Blessed Sacrament.
Amen

ACTS OF REPARATION +

Most adorable Saviour, by the most wonderful prodigy of Thy love for us, Thou dost shut Thyself up in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar, in order to be the perpetual Sacrifice of the New Law, the innocent Victim of our sins, the celestial Food of our souls, our kind Physician, our good Master, our powerful Mediator, and our loving Father.

But, alas! with what ingratitude on our part Thine infinite kindness is repaid. Prostrate before Thine altar, where Thou art as really present as in the highest heavens, we come to make reparation for all the injuries and for all the ingratitude inflicted on Thy loving heart in this sacrament.

0 divine Jesus, grant us to make a fitting reparation for all blasphemies, for all profanations, and all sacrileges ever committed; for the want of devotion and neglect of preparation for holy communion, for the little fruit we have drawn from it.

Pardon, 0 Lord, pardon for so many Christians who know Thee not, and who offend. Thee; for so many heretics who insult Thee; for so many impious men and apostates who persecute Thee. By the fervor of our love, we would wish to make amends to Thee for all their contempt, and for all their sacrileges.

How happy should we be, 0 Jesus, could we but make reparation to Thy glory, by our respect, by our zeal, aye, even, by the shedding of our blood. At least, most adorable Saviour, grant us the grace to love Thee in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, with the most tender, the most generous, the most perfect, the most constant love.

Virgin most holy, by thy holy and immaculate heart, make, us enter into the adorable heart of thy divine Son, Jesus Christ.

0 sweet St. Joseph! obtain for me the gift of prayer and of perpetual union with Jesus and Mary.

Amen.

ACTS OF PETITION +

0 my God, how shall I contain my astonishment when I meditate on what Thou hast done for me in this sacrament. Thou, my Redeemer, Christ Jesus, art content to descend from heaven, to place Thyself within the consecrated Host, and to dwell within the tabernacle day and night, solely to exercise Thy love towards me, and to communicate to me the abundance of Thy graces.

Oh, what bounty, what mercy! There appears to me, that in the Divine Sacrament, wherein dwells the Author and Giver of all good, I behold the King of glory, Who, with gentle courtesy, calls me, and invites me, and expects me, that I may go to receive His graces, and be consoled.

Courage, then, my soul; come, let us beg for blessings, and not be weary, but be confident that we shall receive them. “Let us go, therefore, with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace in seasonable aid” (Heb. ii. 10).

If I look into my own heart, to discover its needs, that they may be supplied, I find that I am in want of all; for all fails me, and I have no sound virtue, for vice alone predominates in me. My wants are without end, and Thou, my God, discerns them far more clearly than I can do.

I am blind, and without light, and this is the first grace I implore from Thee: “Lord, that I may see” (Luke xviii. 41). Illuminate me, 0 true Eternal Light, Who didst come into the world to enlighten every man; make me to see and to know my vileness, my poverty, my extreme misery, that knowing myself, I may learn humility. Want of humility is the great cause of my evil; I esteem myself too highly, and aspire to be highly esteemed by others; and hence I fall, and fall at every little occasion, without ever amending my faults. All my sins are the effects, the punishment of my pride.

Oh, if I were but humble of heart, as I am under obligation to be! 0 my Jesus, Thou Who hast so abased Thyself in the Blessed Sacrament, almost to nothing, and dwells there, hiding within the sacred Host all Thy glorious gifts, I ask of Thee a true and holy humility, for without this I have neither capacity nor disposition to receive any of Thy graces, and this alone can fit me for them. I know not even what humility is, but I well know that I greatly need it. I ask it of Thee by that stupendous humility which brings Thee to dwell within the Blessed Sacrament. 0 God of all greatness, and of all humility, humble my pride, and give me a humble and contrite heart.

With the grace of humility I also ask of Thee ever to increase in me the graces of faith, hope, and charity. These virtues are of necessity for my salvation, and yet how negligently does my heart make acts of them! How often do I allow a long time to pass without making so much as one act of faith, of hope, or of charity!

0 my Lord Jesus Christ! Who, in the Blessed Sacrament, hast deigned to leave us a mystery of faith, a pledge of hope, a bond of love, give me grace to acquire the good habit of frequently practicing these virtues during my life, that they may avail me in the hour of my death. Make me worthy to live and die in Thy faith, with the firm hope of living and dying in Thy love.

Give me, 0 Lord Jesus! an increase of faith, hope, and charity. But, besides all this, 0 my God! I beseech Thee to give me grace to live in holy charity with all my neighbors. Thou hast commanded me to love them, but I am neglectful in observing this law; some among them I love from inclination, some from interest, and scarcely any purely for Thy love. I love him who treats me kindly, but I do not love him who offends me. Sometimes I intend to love all men, but I have too much reason to fear that in truth I do not love them with that Christian charity which is my duty.

But Thou, in the institution of the Blessed Sacrament, Thou hast left me a model, an example of charity; grant that by Thy grace I may holily imitate Thee. I resolve now to love all men sincerely and cordially for Thy sake, and particularly those who in any way have offended or injured me. All that I most desire for myself, I pray Thee to bestow on them, and to unite this my petition with Thine own prayer upon the cross, when Thou didst intercede for Thy enemies.

Grant, dear Lord, that I may ever live in charity with all, that I may so live as never by any act of mine to break the bond of charity; that I may ever love my neighbor as Thou dost love me. Above all, I humbly beg of Thee the grace to live, in all and through all, resigned to Thy all-holy will.

I accept whatever Thy divine providence shall appoint in my life and in my death; may Thy will in all things alone be done, not mine, 0 Lord! I desire all that Thou wills, and because Thou wills it; and in all circumstances I unite my will with Thine. Therefore, 0 my dear Redeemer, to Thine I now and forever unite my will to that adorable will which in the garden Thou didst, in perfect submission, offer to Thy eternal Father; and I beseech Thee ever so to retain my will in unison with Thine, that nothing shall again disjoin them.

Thou Thyself hast taught me to say, in the Pater Noster, "Thy will be done’ and daily I repeat it, but too often I say the words only with my lips; now at least my heart pronounces them for all time, and in all possible occurrences—“Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

Today, and in all the days of my life, may Thy most holy will be done in me, for me, by me. Teach me to know what pleases Thee, and give me grace to follow it. Grant me, 0 Lord, to discern, to will, to do, that which pleases Thee, as it pleases Thee, and because it pleases Thee.
Amen.

PRELUDE
I. Jesus, addressing the sons of Zebedee, said: "Can you drink the chalice that I shall drink?" (Matt, xx 22.)

II. Lord, the chalice of Thy Passion is bitter, but the blood of the Eucharist is sweet.

III. Let me drink often from the chalice of the Eucharist, that I may have courage to drink also the chalice of Thy Passion.

CHAPLET OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD
V. Incline unto my aid, 0 God!
R. 0 Lord I make haste to help me.
V. Glory be to the Father, etc.
R, As it was in the begin ning, etc.

First Mystery and Meditation.
Our most loving Saviour shed His precious blood for us, for the first time, on the eighth day after His birth, when, to fulfil the law of Moses, He was circumcised.

While, then, we think on all that Jesus did to satisfy God’s justice for our wanderings, let us excite ourselves to true sorrow for them, and promise, with the help of His powerful grace, to be henceforth truly chaste in body and in soul.
Our Father, five times, Glory be to the Father, once.

Second Mystery and Meditation.
Jesus, in the Garden of Olives, shed His blood for us in such streams that it bathed the earth around. This He did at the vision He then had of the ingratitude with which men would meet His love.

Oh! let us, then, repent sincerely for the past, considering how poorly we have met the countless benefits of Our Lord, and resolve henceforth to make good use of His graces and holy inspirations.
Our Father, five times, Glory be to the Father, once.

Third Mystery and Meditation.
Jesus, in His cruel scourging, shed His blood when, from His lacerated skin and wounded flesh, on every side, that precious blood flowed in streams, while our gentle Lord kept offering it to His eternal Father in payment of our impatience and our wantonness. How is it, then, that we do not curb our wrath and self-love?

Oh! let us henceforth try to be more patient in our trials, to despise ourselves, and to hear in peace the injuries men do us.
Our Father, five times, Glory be to the Father, once.

Fourth Mystery and Meditation.
The sacred heart of Jesus poured forth blood when it was crowned with thorns, all for our pride and evil thoughts. And shall we continue to nourish haughtiness and to foster foul imaginations, and the evil thoughts of our mind?

Henceforth let there be ever before our eyes our utter nothingness, our misery, and our weakness, and with generous hearts let us resist the evil suggestions of the devil.
Our Father, five times, Glory be to the Father, once.

Fifth Mystery and Meditation.
Oh, what streams of blood our loving Jesus, laden with the heavy wood of the cross, on the mournful way to Calvary, poured forth from His veins! Then were the very streets and ways of Jerusalem through which He passed, bathed with His precious blood. And all this was done in satisfaction for the scandals and bad examples by which His own creatures had led others astray on the way to ruin.

Ah! who can tell whether we, too, are not of this unhappy number? Who knows how many our bad example has thrust down to hell? And have we done nothing to remedy this evil? Alas! let us henceforth endeavor to do all t we can to save souls by word and example, making ourselves to all a pattern of a good and holy life.
Our Father, five times, Glory be to the Father, once.

Sixth Mystery and Meditation.
More and yet more blood flowed from the Redeemer of mankind, in His most barbarous crucifixion; when His veins and arteries wore rent and The Most Precious Blood, broken, and the saving balm of life eternal, which blotted out all the crimes and enormities of a whole world, flowed in torrents from out His hands and feet.

What man is he, that still will choose to continue in his sin, renewing thus the cruel crucifixion of the Son of God. Bitterly, bitterly will we weep then for our bad deeds done, and at the feet of God’s minister detest them; now will we mend our evil ways, and henceforth begin a truly Christian life, with the thought ever in our hearts of all the blood which our eternal salvation cost the Saviour of men.
Our Father, five times, Glory be to the Father, once.

Seventh Mystery and Meditation.
Last of all, Jesus shed His blood, when He was dead, when the lance opened His sacred side and cleft His loving heart; and with the blood gushed forth water, to show us how His blood was all poured out, even to the last drop, for our salvation.

0 infinite goodness of Our Redeemer! who will not love Thee? What heart will not melt away for very love of Thee "Who hast done all this for our redemption? Our tongues want words to praise Thee: wherefore, we invite all creatures upon earth, all the angels and all the saints in paradise, and, most of all, our dearest Mother Mary, to bless, to praise, and to hymn Thy most precious blood. Yes, glory to the blood of Jesus, now and forever, throughout all ages! Amen.

At this last mystery, say the Our Father, three times, to make up the number of thirty-three, and the Glory be to the Father, once.

Then say the following Prayer.
Most precious blood of life eternal, price and ransom of the world, whose saving streams nourish and cleanse our souls, ever pleading man’s cause before the throne, of heavenly mercy! from the depths of my soul I adore thee; fain would I, were I able, make thee some compensation for the outrages and wrongs thou dost ever suffer from men, thy creatures, and, most of all, from those who, in their rashness, cease not to blaspheme thee.

Who will not bless this blood of infinite value? who not burn for love of Jesus, who shed it all for us? What were I but for this blood which hath redeemed me? Love, assuredly love. O boundless love, which gave to us this saving balm beyond all price, welling from the fount of immeasurable love!

Give to all hearts, to all tongues, power to praise, hymn, and thank thee, now and forever, and throughout all eternity! Amen.

V. Thou hast redeemed us, 0 Lord! in Thy blood.
R. And made us a kingdom to our God.

Let us Pray,
Almighty and everlasting God, Who hast appointed Thine only-begotten Son the Saviour of the world, and hast willed to be appeased with His blood: grant us, we beseech Thee, so to venerate this price of our salvation, and by its might so to be defended upon earth from the evils of this present life, that in heaven we may rejoice in its everlasting fruit.

Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, world without end. Amen.

Our Lady of the Most Holy Sacrament, Mother and model of adorers, pray for us, who have recourse to thee.

St. Joseph, pray for us, that like thee we may die in the arms of Jesus and Mary.


PRAYER TO THE HOLY GHOST
0 Holy Ghost, Thou Teacher and Sanctifier, Who givest light and strength to my soul, bless me that I may be more faithful to Jesus, my Savior and my God, Who is hidden in the Blessed Sacrament, and that I may love Him more and more. In the light of the tabernacle I ask of Thee, 0 Holy Spirit, to fill my heart with pure desire for Jesus, the Living Bread. Give me grace to adore Him with the zeal and humble ven­eration of the holy angels; grant that His will may be done on earth as it is in heaven, and that His will be done in my soul. Help me to thank Him for all His gifts, and, most of all, for Himself. By this Holy Sacrament He strengthens souls on earth, gives rest to souls in purgatory, and gladdens souls in heaven. He is the hidden manna, promised by Himself to all who overcome them­selves and love Him. May I taste the sweetness of Jesus! Set up more and more Thy kingdom in my soul, that I may keep my body under and bring it to subjection, lest I should be a castaway from Jesus and from Thee.

SPIRTUAL COMMUNION
0 Jesus, my Savior, Who art truly present in the Blessed Sacrament for the nourishment of our souls! since I cannot now receive Thee sacramentally, I humbly and earnestly beseech Thee to re­fresh me spiritually. I love Thee above all things and I desire to possess Thee within my soul. Come into my mind to illumine it with the light of heaven; come into my heart to enkindle therein the fire of Thy love. Unite me so intimately with Thee, that it may be no more I that live, but Thou that livest and reigneth in me forever.



FRUIT OF THE VISIT.
I. Behold Christ seated in thy heart as a wounded and blood-stained Spouse, pouring forth from His hands and feet and sacred heart the streams of His most precious blood for the health and salvation of thy sick soul.

II. Love Him with a brave love, as the holy martyrs loved Him, that so thou may dare to say: "Who, then, shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation? or distress? or famine? or persecution? or the sword? " (Rom. viii. 35.)

III. Ask Him for "Health-Giving Sorrows," that as the sufferings of Christ abound in thee, so also may abound in thee the greatness of His comforts (2 Cor. i. 5).

EUCHARISTIC GEMS.
"By this chalice the martyrs were inebriated, when on their way to martyrdom they did not know their own kinsfolk."—St. Augustine.

Ejaculation.
 Glory to the Blood of Jesus, now and forever, and throughout all ages!

The Eucharistic Pelican.
0 the mystery exceeding.
All the shadows of the law;
God the Word, Whom angels worship,
Whom the seraphim adore,
Comes on earth to found a Kingdom,
There to reign for evermore.

He Himself is King and Kingdom,
And, within that Kingdom, we
By the Eucharistic union
Are His members verily—
Are the true though lowly temples
Of the Godhead, One in Three.

’Neath the veils of earth-born creatures,
Undiminished and unriven,
Christ, through ages past and coming,
Is the ever-mystic Leaven ;
Christ, the first-born of the Virgin,
Ever is the Bread of heaven.

As the pelican her bosom
Pierceth that her young be fed,
So the children of the Passion 
By his wounds are nourished;
For that blood forever flcweth
From Him undiminished.

Daily, hourly, every moment,
Be the great, unchanging Word,
Be the ever-glorious body
And the precious blood adored.
0 ye children of the Kingdom,
Praise and thank the living Lord!
E. M. S. 

Invocations to the Precious Blood.
Precious Blood of Jesus, shed in the Circumcision, make me chaste of mind, heart, and body!

Precious Blood of Jesus, oozing in the agony of Jesus from every pore, grant me to love above all things the holy and adorable will of God!

Precious Blood, flowing abundantly in the scourging at the pillar, inspire me with.a keen sorrow for my sins and a love of suffering !

Precious Blood, falling in profusion from the crown of thorns, grant me a love of humiliations.

Precious Blood, fructifying the way of Calvary, fill me with the courage to walk unfalteringly in the footsteps of Jesus!

Precious Blood, shed so profusely in the crucifixion of our Jesus, make me die entirely to selflove!

Precious Blood, shed to the very last drop by the opening of the Sacred Heart, give me that generous love that sacrifices all for God!

Precious Blood, sacred source whence flow all virtues and all graces, apply thy infinite merits to my soul!

Precious Blood, whose virtue animates and vivifies our actions, apply thy infinite merits to all our works!

Life-giving Fountain, in which the soul fully slakes its thirst, saturate it with pure love I

0 Divine Blood of mv Jesus, I adore thee from the depth of my heart! Thee I ardently invoke, for thou art my salvation, and by thee I hope to obtain the joys of paradise.

Eternal Father, be merciful, through the name of the blood of Thy only Son; we conjure Thee, show us Thy mercy!

Most Precious Blood of Jesus, cry for mercy for us, to thy divine Father and deliver us!

Eternal Father, I offer Thee the precious blood of Jesus, in satisfaction for my sins and for the wants of the holy Church.

Devout Aspirations.
Glory be to Jesus!
Who in bitter pains
Poured for me the life-blood.
From His sacred veins.

Grace and life eternal
 In that blood I find:
Blessed be His compassion,
Infiinitely kind!

Blessed through endless ages
 Be the precious stream,
Which from endless torment
Doth the world redeem.

There the fainting spirit
Drinks of life her fill;
There, as in a fountain,
Laves herself at will.

0 the blood of Christ!
It soothes the Father's ire, Open the gate of heaven,
Quells eternal fire.

Abel’s blood for vengeance
Pleaded to the skies;
But the blood of Jesus
For our pardon cries.

Oft as it is sprinkled
 On our guilty hearts,
Satan in confusion, Terror struck, departs.

Oft as earth exulting
 Wafts its praise on high.
Hell with terror trembles,
Heaven is filled with Joy.

Lift ye, then, your voices,
Swell the mighty flood;
Louder still and louder,
Praise the precious blood!