Visit to the Blessed Sacrament

3 min

Acts at the Beginning of the Visit

Acts to Be Made at the Beginning of Every Visit to the Blessed Sacrament

My Lord Jesus Christ, who for the love you bear to men remain night and day in this Sacrament, full of compassion and of love, waiting, calling, and welcoming all who come to visit you: I believe that you are present in the Sacrament of the altar; I adore you from the abyss of my nothingness, and I thank you for all the graces you have bestowed on me, especially for having given me yourself in this Sacrament, for having given me your most holy Mother Mary as my advocate, and for having called me to visit you in this church. I salute your most loving Heart today, and I intend to salute it for three purposes: first, in thanksgiving for this great gift; second, to make reparation for all the injuries you have received from all your enemies in this Sacrament; third, I intend by this visit to adore you in all the places on earth where you dwell in the Sacrament, least reverenced and most abandoned. My Jesus, I love you with all my heart. I repent of having in the past so many times offended your infinite goodness. I resolve, with the help of your grace, never to offend you again in the future; and in my present miserable state I consecrate myself entirely to you. I give you and I renounce my entire will, my affections, my desires, and all that is mine. From this day forward, do with me and with all that belongs to me whatever pleases you. I ask for and desire only your holy love, final perseverance, and the perfect fulfillment of your will. I commend to you the souls in purgatory, especially the most devoted to the Blessed Sacrament and to the Blessed Virgin Mary. I commend to you also all poor sinners. Finally, my dear Savior, I unite all my affections with the affections of your most loving Heart, and thus united I offer them to your Eternal Father, and I beg him in your name and for your love to accept and answer them.

O Sacrament most holy, O Sacrament divine,

Laudétur et grátiæ agántur omni moménto

all praise and all thanksgiving be every moment thine.

sanctíssimo et diviníssimo Sacraménto.

Our Father

Our Father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

Amen.

Pater noster, qui es in cælis,

sanctificétur nomen tuum.

Advéniat regnum tuum.

Fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra.

Panem nostrum quotidiánum da nobis hódie,

et dimítte nobis débita nostra,

sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris.

Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem,

sed líbera nos a malo.

Amen.

Hail Mary

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou amongst women,

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

pray for us sinners,

now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

Ave María, grátia plena, Dóminus tecum.

Benedícta tu in muliéribus,

et benedíctus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.

Sancta María, Mater Dei,

ora pro nobis peccatóribus,

nunc et in hora mortis nostræ.

Amen.

Glory Be

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,

world without end.

Amen.

Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.

Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper,

et in sǽcula sæculórum.

Amen.

O Sacrament most holy, O Sacrament divine,

Laudétur et grátiæ agántur omni moménto

all praise and all thanksgiving be every moment thine.

sanctíssimo et diviníssimo Sacraménto.

Our Father

Our Father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

Amen.

Pater noster, qui es in cælis,

sanctificétur nomen tuum.

Advéniat regnum tuum.

Fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra.

Panem nostrum quotidiánum da nobis hódie,

et dimítte nobis débita nostra,

sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris.

Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem,

sed líbera nos a malo.

Amen.

Hail Mary

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou amongst women,

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

pray for us sinners,

now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

Ave María, grátia plena, Dóminus tecum.

Benedícta tu in muliéribus,

et benedíctus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.

Sancta María, Mater Dei,

ora pro nobis peccatóribus,

nunc et in hora mortis nostræ.

Amen.

Glory Be

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,

world without end.

Amen.

Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.

Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper,

et in sǽcula sæculórum.

Amen.

O Sacrament most holy, O Sacrament divine,

Laudétur et grátiæ agántur omni moménto

all praise and all thanksgiving be every moment thine.

sanctíssimo et diviníssimo Sacraménto.

Our Father

Our Father, who art in heaven,

hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those who trespass against us.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.

Amen.

Pater noster, qui es in cælis,

sanctificétur nomen tuum.

Advéniat regnum tuum.

Fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra.

Panem nostrum quotidiánum da nobis hódie,

et dimítte nobis débita nostra,

sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris.

Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem,

sed líbera nos a malo.

Amen.

Hail Mary

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou amongst women,

and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,

pray for us sinners,

now and at the hour of our death.

Amen.

Ave María, grátia plena, Dóminus tecum.

Benedícta tu in muliéribus,

et benedíctus fructus ventris tui, Iesus.

Sancta María, Mater Dei,

ora pro nobis peccatóribus,

nunc et in hora mortis nostræ.

Amen.

Glory Be

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be,

world without end.

Amen.

Glória Patri, et Fílio, et Spirítui Sancto.

Sicut erat in princípio, et nunc, et semper,

et in sǽcula sæculórum.

Amen.

Today's Visit — St. Alphonsus Liguori

Visit XIV

Most lovable Jesus, I hear you say in this tabernacle where you dwell: Haec requies mea in saeculum saeculi: hic habitabo, quoniam elegi eam (Ps. CXXXI, 15). If, then, you have chosen your dwelling among us upon the altars, remaining in the Blessed Sacrament, and if the love you bear us makes you find your rest there, it is right that our hearts should also dwell always with you in affection and find there every delight and repose. O happy are you, loving souls, who find no fairer repose in the world than in staying near your sacramental Jesus! And happy shall I be, my Lord, if from this day forward I find no greater delight than in being always present to you, or always thinking of you who are in the Blessed Sacrament always thinking of me and of my good!

Ah, my Lord, why have I lost so many years in which I did not love you? Unhappy years, I curse you! And I bless you, O infinite patience of my God, who for so many years have borne with one so ungrateful to your love. And yet, ungrateful though I am, you still wait for me. Why, my God, why? So that one day, overcome by your mercies and your love, I might surrender myself entirely to you. Lord, I wish to resist no more; I wish to be ungrateful no more. It is right that I should consecrate to you at least this time that remains to me, be it little or much, of life. I hope, my Jesus, for your help in being entirely yours. You favored me so greatly when I was fleeing from you and despising your love; how much more do I hope you will favor me now that I seek you and desire to love you. Grant me, then, the grace to love you, O God worthy of infinite love. I love you with all my heart, I love you above all things, I love you more than myself, more than my life. I repent of having offended you, O infinite goodness. Pardon me, and together with your pardon grant me the grace to love you greatly until death in this life and for all eternity in the next. Show by your power, O Almighty God, this wonder in the world: that a soul so ungrateful as mine should become one of your greatest lovers. Do this through your own merits, my Jesus. This I desire; this I resolve to do for all my life; you who inspire the desire in me, give me the strength. -- My Jesus, I thank you for having waited for me until now.

Spiritual Communion.

To Mary

Nullus est, said St. Germanus, speaking to Most Holy Mary, qui salvus fiat nisi per te: nemo qui liberetur a malis nisi per te: nemo cui donum concedatur nisi per te. Therefore, my Lady and my hope, if you do not help me, I am lost and will not be able to come to bless you in paradise. But I hear, my Lady, from the saints, who all say that you never abandon those who have recourse to you: only he is lost who does not have recourse to you. I, wretched as I am, have recourse to you and place in you all my hopes. -- With St. Bernard: Haec tota mea fiducia: haec tota ratio spei meae.

Prayer of St. Anselm:

We beseech you, O most holy Lady, by that grace with which God so exalted you and made all things possible to you together with him, to bring it about that the fullness of grace which you have merited may make us partakers of your glory. Strive, O most merciful Lady, to procure that good for which God was pleased to become man in your chaste womb. Do not be reluctant to listen to us. If you deign to pray to your Son, he will hear you at once. It suffices that you wish us to be saved, and then we cannot but be saved. Who can restrain the depths of your mercy? If you do not have compassion on us, you who are the Mother of mercy, what will become of us when your Son comes to judge us?

O Mary, behold the danger in which we stand, and have pity on us.

Spiritual Communion

I wish, my Lord and my God, to receive Thee with the purity, humility and devotion with which Thy most holy Mother received Thee, with the spirit and fervour of the saints.

Prayers at the End of the Visit

Prayers to Be Made at the End of Every Visit

Prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary

which should be repeated every day at the end of the Visit, to obtain her most powerful patronage.

Most Holy Immaculate Virgin and my Mother Mary, to you who are the Mother of my Lord, the Queen of the world, the advocate, the hope, the refuge of sinners, I have recourse today, I who am the most miserable of all. I adore you, O great Queen, and I thank you for all the graces you have bestowed on me until now, especially for having delivered me from hell, which I have so many times deserved. I love you, most lovable Lady, and for the love I bear you I promise always to serve you and to do all I can so that you may be loved by others as well. I place in you all my hopes, all my salvation. Accept me as your servant, and receive me under your mantle, O Mother of mercy. And since you are so powerful with God, deliver me from all temptations, or rather obtain for me the strength to overcome them until death. Of you I ask true love for Jesus Christ. From you I hope to make a good death. My Mother, for the love you bear to God, I beg you to help me always, but especially at the last moment of my life. Do not leave me until you see me safe in heaven, blessing you and singing your mercies for all eternity. Amen. So I hope; so may it be.