Spiritual Communion

Here are some resources for making our spiritual communion, and for helping others to do so. If you have any others, let me know.

Simon Butler has shared the Liturgy the Salesian sisters have put together. I've added it here.

Here are some other prayers if you cannot attend the Eucharist.

O most loving Saviour,

since I cannot have the happiness

of receiving you this day,

super me to gather up the precious crumbs

that fall from your table,

and to unite myself to your divine heart

by faith, hope and charity.

I confess that I do not deserve the children's bread

but I venture humbly to declare that

away from you my soul is dried up for thirst

and my heart cast down with faintness.

Come, then, unto me,

O my divine Jesus,

come into my mind to illuminate it with your light;

come into my heart

to unkind it in the fire of your love,

and to unite it so intimately with your own

that it may be no more that I live

but that you live in me,

and reign in me for ever. Amen.

(Francis Nepveu, 1639-1708, trans. Francis A. Ryan)

My Jesus, I believe that you are present

in the Blessed Sacrament,

I love you above all things

and I desire you in my soul.

Since I cannot receive you now sacramentally,

come at least spiritually into my soul.

As though you were already

there I embrace you

and unite myself wholly to you;

permit not that I should ever

be separated from you. Amen.

(St Alphonsus Liguori, 1696-1787, trans. Eugine Grimm, 1835-91)