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.