O eternal and almighty God, behold I approach the Sacrament of your only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. Impure, I come to the source of mercy; blind, to the light of eternal clarity; poor and indigent, to the Lord of heaven and earth.
I implore, therefore, the abundance of your liberality, so that you may deign to heal my weakness, wash my stains, illuminate my blindness, enrich my poverty, clothe my nakedness.
May I receive the bread of angels, the King of kings and the Lord of lords, with the respect and humility, with the contrition and devotion, the purity and faith, the purpose and intention that befit the salvation of my soul.
Grant me that I may receive not only the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of the Lord, but also its effect and its power.
O God of meekness, make me welcome with such dispositions the Body that your only Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, received from the Virgin Mary, that it may be incorporated into his mystical Body and counted among its members.
O Father full of love, make it so that, receiving now your Son under the veil of the Sacrament, I may in eternity contemplate him face to face. He, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, for all ages of ages. Amen.
