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Virgin Immaculate, Mother of Jesus and our Mother, we invoke
you under the title of Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament
because you are the Mother of the Saviour who lives in the
Eucharist. It was from you He took the flesh and blood with
which He feeds us in the Sacred Host. We also invoke you under
that title because the grace of the Eucharist comes to us
through you, since you are the Mediatrix, the channel, through
which God's graces reach us. And, finally, we call you Our
Lady of the Blessed Sacrament because you were the first to
live the Eucharistic life. Teach us to pray the Mass as you
did, to receive Holy Communion worthily and frequently, and
to visit devoutly with Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.
Virgin Immaculate, you were present at the death of your Divine
Son on Calvary, and you offered your immense sorrow in union
with His Sacrifice. Again after the Resurrection you were
present at the real, but unbloody Sacrifice of your Son in
the Holy Mass. Teach us to unite ourselves with Jesus at the
Consecration as you did; obtain for us the grace to understand
the reality of the Mass; and awaken in us the desire to assist
at Mass often, even daily.
Virgin Immaculate, your Communions were the most fervent and
the most holy ever made. When you received your Divine Son
into your heart, you loved Him with a love exceeding that
of any other creature for his God. Teach us to make Holy Communion
the center of our life, as it was of yours, so that our lives
may be entirely spent in preparing for the coming of Jesus
in Communion and in thanking Him for the gift of Himself to
us.
Virgin Immaculate, after the Ascension of Jesus into heaven,
you found consolation in your separation from Him by visiting
Him often in the Blessed Sacrament. Obtain for us the grace
to be always conscious of His presence in the tabernacle and
to visit Him often as you did, especially when we are troubled,
lonely, afraid, and in pain of body or mind. Teach us to remember
that He is always there, ready to listen to us, to guide,
protect and console us.
Virgin Immaculate, you are the perfect model of adorers of
the Blessed Sacrament. You adored Jesus in the little white
Host with the same faith, reverence and wonder with which
you adored Him on the first Christmas night and during all
the years you lived with Him. Teach us not to forget that
the small white Host is truly our God, infinite, eternal and
ominpotent. Help us to conduct ourselves at all times in His
presence with the modesty and reverence we owe to our God.
Virgin Immaculate, you gave Jesus the most perfect thanksgiving
for the institution of the Eucharist. Teach us to thank your
Divine Son for the gift of Himself in the Blessed Sacrament.
Teach us also to thank Him after we have received Him in Communion.
And since our best thanksgiving can never equal yours, permit
us to offer Him your thanksgiving after Communion, your fervor,
your love, your devotion.
Virgin Immaculate, you gave to Jesus in the Sacred Host perfect
reparation. We desire to accept our daily trials for love
of Him and with you, to console Him for the ingratitude of
men and the slights and outrages He suffers daily in the Blessed
Sacrament both from those who believe in Him and those who
do not.
Virgin Immaculate, while the apostles preached the Gospel,
you stayed close to your Divine Son in the tabernacle and
prayed to Him for the graces they needed to convert the world.
Teach us to pray before the tabernacle where Jesus waits day
and night to hear and grant our petitions. Teach us to pray
not for ourselves, but also for those who do not know Him
in the Sacrament of His Love, so that the gift of faith may
be given them, and His Eucharistic Kingdom may be spread throughout
the world.
Virgin Immaculate, perfect lover of Our Lord in the Blessed
Sacrament, we ask you to obtain for us the graces we need
to become true adorers of our Eucharistic God. Grant us, we
beg you, to know Him better, to love Him more, and to center
our lives around the Eucharist, that is, to make our whole
life a constant prayer of adoration, thanksgiving, reparation,
and petition to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Amen
Pray for us, O Virgin Immaculate, Our Lady of the Most Blessed
Sacrament. That the Eucharistic Kingdom of Jesus Christ may
come among us!
Let us Pray:
Lord Jesus Christ, our King and our God, who are true God
and true Man in the bread of the Eucharist, we beg of You,
that, in venerating so great a mystery, we may be mindful
of Your Blessed Mother, in whose body you were conceived by
the Holy Spirit. Grant also that we may imitate her manner
of worshiping You in the Sacred Host, her adoration, her thanksgiving,
her reparation, her prayer, so that we may see Your Eucharistic
Kingdom spread and flourish throughout the whole world. Amen.
Virgin Mary, Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, glory
of the Christian people, joy of the universal Church, salvation
of the world, pray for us and grant to all the faithful true
devotion to the Most Holy Eucharist, so that they may become
worthy to receive It daily.
(Courtesy: Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament.
Apostolate for Perpetual Adoration from Treasury of Prayer
- Rev. Lawrence G. Lovasik.)
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