Prayer Before Holy Communion

Come, O Jesus!  My poor soul calls for Thee and awaits Thee.  Comfort my poor soul distressed.  Come and dwell within my breast.  My Savior, Jesus, come to me.  With all my heart I long for Thee.  Most firmly I believe in Thee.  Most truthfully I hope in Thee.  Most ardently I love Thee.  Then come, O Jesus, come to me. 

Let me receive Thy Body, so weary with suffering, so tortured to save me.  Let me receive Thy Blood, Which, agony for me pressed from Thy Brow in the Garden and Which Thou didst shed for love of me, every step of the Way of Thy Cross.

Let me receive Thy Soul, so sweet, and strong, meek and compassionate.  Let It lift my soul to Thee.
Come dear Jesus, with Thy Divinity.  Print Thy Divine Image on my soul, and make it holy through Thy grace.
Every day I need Thy Light to guide me in the way God wants me to go.  Come, then, O my Host, and day by day enlighten my soul with Thy Divine Grace.

Every day I need Thy Strength to fulfill God's reason for my creation.  Come, O my Host, and give me strength to set aside every obstacle in following Thee.

In my trials and afflictions of every day, Come O my Host, and give me patience and resignation.
In the duties and obligations which every day brings, Come, O my Host, and give me strength to be faithful to them.

Every day I ought to do good about me, to set good example to my neighbors, perhaps to console and counsel them.  Come, then, O my Host, day by day, and inspire me with Thy Divine Charity.
Every day is full of temptations and I am weak.  Come, O my Host, and day by day renew my powers; raise me up from my falls; purify me from my faults.

O Jesus, when dawns the day which shall be my last, come to me as my Divine Friend.  Come to me as my Host for the last time on earth so that, having begun every day of my life on earth with Thee, I may also begin the day of eternity that shall never end with Thee.  Amen. - (From Jesus, Mary, Joseph Novena Manual, Confraternity of the Precious Blood, Copyright, 1939)