as a Sacrifice and an Oblation for our salvation. With lowly adoration do all the Holy Angels worship Thee, their God and their Lord, when they see Thee, Who wast made Man of old time for our redemption, veil Thy glory and Thy beauty beneath the poor forms of bread and wine for our nourishment and support. O Good Jesu, how greatly are those Mysteries, which Thou dost bring to pass, to be reverenced and worshipped! I am most unworthy to assist thereat, and therefore I abase myself in the dust before Thee, and beseech Thee to give me that portion of these Good Things which falleth to me, for from hence all Thine elect look for health and life. Would that I might so take part in this Sacrifice that none of Its effect might be lost to myself, or to those for whom I offer it. Wherefore, I entreat Thee, grant unto Thy Priest such grace that he may worthily handle and offer Thy Body and Blood, and so may all Thy faithful people, whether quick or dead, receive health and refreshment. Amen.

We wait for Thee, O Jesu,. our souls long for Thee. Come, Lord Jesus!

At the Consecration.

O LESSED is He that cometh in the Name of

Bthe Lord. Hosanna in the Highest.

Hail to all Eternity, Thou most holy Flesh of Christ, my chiefest Sweetness before all things, and beyond all things. The Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ be to me, a sinner, the Way and the Life.

Hail to all eternity, Thou heavenly Drink, my chiefest Sweetness before all things. The Body of our Lord Jesus Christ profit me, a sinner, for everlasting healing unto eternal life. Amen.

Hail, True Body! born of Mary,
Spotless Virgin's virgin birth;
Thou Who truly hangedst weary

On the Cross for sons of earth;
Thou Whose Sacred Side was riven,
Whence the Water flowed and Blood;
O may'st Thou, dear Lord, be given
At death's hour to be our Food.

O most kind! O gracious One!

O sweetest Jesu, Holy Mary's Son! Amen.

After the Consecration.

GREAT High Priest, the true Priest, Jesus. Christ, Who didst offer Thyself to God the Father, a pure and spotless Victim, upon the Altar of the Cross, for us miserable sinners; and didst give us Thy Flesh to eat, and Thy Blood to drink; and didst ordain that holy Mystery in the power of Thy Holy Ghost, saying, This do in remembrance of Me: I pray Thee, by the same Thy Blood, the great price of our salvation; I pray Thee by that wonderful and unspeakable love wherewith Thou deignest so to love us, miserable and unworthy, as to wash us from our sins in Thy Blood; teach me, Thine unworthy servant, by Thy Holy Ghost, to approach so great a Mystery with such reverence and honour, with such devotion and fear as I ought and as is fitting. Make me, through Thy grace, always so to believe and understand, to conceive and firmly to hold, to think and to speak of that exceeding Mystery as may please Thee, and shall be good for my soul.

Let Thy good Spirit enter my heart and there be heard without utterance; and without the sound

of words, speak all truth: since Thy mysteries are exceeding deep, and covered with a sacred veil.

For Thy great mercy's sake, grant me to ap proach Thy Holy Mysteries with a clean heart and a pure mind. Free my heart from all defiling and unholy, from all vain and hurtful thoughts. Fence me about with the holy and faithful guard and mighty protection of Thy blessed Angels, that the enemies of good may go away ashamed.

By the virtue of this mighty Mystery, and by the hand of Thy holy Angel, drive away from me, and from all Thy faithful servants, the hard spirit of pride and vain-glory, envy and blasphemy, impurity and uncleanness, doubting and mistrust. Let them be confounded that seek after my soul to destroy it; let them perish that seek my hurt.

Before Communion.

LAMB of God, That takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.

O Lamb of God, That takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us.

O Lamb of God, That takest away the sins of the world, grant us Thy peace.

O God the Father, Fount and Source of all goodness, Who, led by mercy, didst will that Thine Only-begotten shouldest come down to this lower world, and shouldest take flesh, which Flesh, I, although unworthy, am about to receive, I worship Thee, I glorify Thee, and with the whole desire of my mind and heart I praise Thee, and beseech Thee not to leave us, Thy servants, but forgive us our sins, so that we may be worthy to serve Thee, the only living and true God, with pure heart and

chaste body. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

O Lord Jesu Christ, Son of the Living God, Who, according to the Will of the Father, and by the co-operation of the Holy Ghost, hast quickened the world by Thy Death, deliver me, I beseech Thee, by this Thy most holy Body and by this Blood, from all mine iniquities and from every evil; make me ever to obey Thy commandments, and never let me be separated from Thee for ever, O Saviour of the world, Who livest and reignest with God the Father, and with the same Holy Ghost, One God, world without end. Amen.

Let not the Sacrament of Thy Body and Blood, O Lord Jesu Christ, which I, although unworthy, do now receive, be unto me for judgment and condemnation; but through Thy loving-kindness let it set forward the salvation of my body and soul. Amen.

While kneeling at the Altar.

I desire to Commu

nion to Thy honour and glory, and to

obtain (here name special intention).

Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldest come under my roof, but speak the word only and my soul shall be healed.

Come, good Jesus; come, Thou Desire of my soul; come into my heart with that love wherewith Thou didst enter into the Virgin's womb.

After Communion.

GOOD Jesu, O Jesu my only Salvation and my Consolation, whence is this to me that Thou shouldest come unto me. and not abhor to

enter into my most polluted heart, defiled as it is with such exceeding stains and sins? Blessed be Thy coming unto me, and blessed be the sweetness of the love which hath constrained Thee to visit me, Thy poor and worthless creature. I cast myself now in the very dust before Thy face; with the most profound humility and due reverence I worship Thee, and most humbly beseech Thee that Thou wouldest forgive me for having received Thee, my Lord, with so great negligence, distraction, and lack of devotion. Pardon me, O most tender Jesu, and by Thy life-giving Death blot out all mine iniquities, supply my defects, satisfy for my negligences; wherefore, I beseech Thee, to accept this my Communion, and to offer it to Thy Father, with all the merit of Thy Oblation on the Cross. And now, O Good Jesu, I offer and make over unto Thee my most unworthy heart, beseeching Thee to cleanse it in the Water, and to revive and refresh it with the Blood, which on the Cross flowed forth from Thine own most Sacred Heart. Amen.

Soul of Christ, hallow me, p. 2.

The Prayer, "Suscipe,", p. 8.

Table of Psalms after Communion, p. xi.

The "Aspirations," p. 54, &c.

After the Benediction.

MOST sweet Lord Jesu Christ, pierce

most

most sweet and healthful wound of Thy love, with true, calm, apostolic, and holiest charity; so that my soul may pine and long evermore with love and desire of Thee alone; let it have a longing and a desire for Thee in Thy courts; let it wish to depart that it may be with Thee. Let my soul ever hunger