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Through thy adorable heart I bless and praise thee, my Lord and my God! for having so often admitted me to participate of the divine food of thy precious body and blood, and comforted me with thy sweet and blessed presence in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist. May every creature celebrate thy praise, O merciful and loving Redeemer! for having bequeathed to thy children so inestimable a legacy— But lest, on account of my sins, thou shouldst reject my praises, be pleased, O my God, to accept, in conjunction with them, the canticles of immaculate praise which the choir of angels and blessed spirits incessantly sing forth to thy glory.

Vouchsafe, O glorious Jesus! that, after making a perfect act of contrition, and a sincere confession of my manifold sins, I may, at the hour of death, humbly adore and devoutly receive