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Rh draw near unto Thee with hope and reverence; and do truly believe that Thou art here present in this sacrament, both God and man.

Thy will is, that I should receive Thee, and that I should unite myself unto Thee in charity.

Wherefore I implore Thy mercy, and do crave Thy special grace, to the end I may wholly be dissolved and overflow with love to Thee, and never hereafter suffer any other consolation to enter in.

For this most high and precious sacrament is the health both of soul and body, the medicine for all spiritual languor; hereby my vices are cured, my passions bridled, my temptations overcome or at least weakened; greater grace is infused, virtue begun is increased, faith is confirmed, hope strengthened, and love inflamed and enlarged.

3. For Thou hast bestowed, and still oftentimes dost bestow many benefits in this sacrament upon Thy beloved ones that communicate devoutly, O my God, the protector of my soul, the strengthener of human frailty, and the giver of all inward comfort.

Thou impartest unto them much comfort against all tribulations; and liftest them up from the depth of their own dejected state, to hope in Thy protection; and dost inwardly refresh and enlighten them with new grace, so that they who at first and before communion felt themselves full of anxiety and heartlessness, were afterwards refreshed with heavenly meat and drink.

And in such a way of dispensation Thou dealest with Thine elect, that they may truly acknowledge, and clearly prove, how great their own infirmity is,