Spiritual Communion

[ronh4]

A act of Spiritual Communion

My Jesus,
I believe that You
are present in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love You above all things,
and I desire to receive You into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment
receive You sacramentally,
come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You.
Amen.

A Spiritual Communion should be made each time one goes to visit the Most Blessed Sacrement.

A Spiritual Communion, according to St. Thomas, consisits in an ardent desire to receive Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament, and in lovingly embracing him as if we had actually received him.

St. Alphonsus de Liguori: All those who desire to advance in the love of Jesus Christ are exhorted to make a Spiritual Communion at lease once in every visit they pay to the Most Blessed Sacrament and at every Mass that they hear, and it would even be better on those occasions to repeat the Communions three times, that is to say at the beginning, the middle and the end.

The church grants an indulgence each time it is said. Memorize and remember to repeat it several times each day.

 

[ProVobis]

Thank you. This is one of my favorite topics.

You may like what the Catechism of Trent says about the three ways of communicating:

Recipient of the Eucharist

Threefold Manner Of Communicating

That the faithful may learn to be zealous for the better gifts, they must be shown who can obtain these abundant fruits from the Holy Eucharist, must be reminded that there is not only one way of communicating. Wisely and rightly, then, did our predecessors in the faith, as we read in the Council of Trent, distinguish three ways of receiving this Sacrament.

Some receive it sacramentally only. Such are those sinners who do not fear to approach the holy mysteries with polluted lips and heart, who, as the Apostle says, eat and drink the Lord’s body unworthily. Of this class of communicants St. Augustine says: He who dwells not in Christ, and in whom Christ dwells not, most certainly does not eat spiritually His flesh, although carnally and visibly he press with his teeth the Sacrament of His flesh and blood. Those, therefore, who receive the sacred mysteries with such a disposition, not only obtain no fruit therefrom, but, as the Apostle himself testifies, eat and drink judgment to themselves.

Others are said to receive the Eucharist in spirit only. They are those who, inflamed with a lively faith which worketh by charity,’ partake in wish and desire of that celestial bread offered to them, from which they receive, if not the entire, at least very great fruits.

Lastly, there are some who receive the Holy Eucharist both sacramentally and spiritually, those who, according to the teaching of the Apostle, having first proved themselves and having approached this divine banquet adorned with the nuptial garment, derive from the Eucharist those most abundant fruits which we have already described. Hence it is clear that those who, having it in their power to receive with fitting preparation the Sacrament of the body of the Lord, are yet satisfied with a spiritual Communion only, deprive themselves of the greatest and most heavenly advantages.

catholicapologetics.info/thechurch/catechism/Holy7Sacraments-Eucharist.shtml

 

[At_Trent]

Yes, a great post/topic. I’ve made Spiritual Communions many times.