Act of Spiritual Communion
My Jesus,
I believe that You are present in the
Most Holy Sacrament.
I love You above all things,
and I desire to receive You
into my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment
receive You sacramentally,
come at least spiritually
into my heart.
I embrace You as if You were already there and unite myself wholly to You.
Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.
"It is of the essence of the Church that she be both human and divine,
visible and yet invisibly equipped, eager to act and yet intent on contemplation,
present in this world and yet not at home in it;
and she is all these things in such wise that in her the human is directed and subordinated to the divine,
the visible likewise to the invisible, action to contemplation,
and this present world to that city yet to come, which we seek."
-Sacrosanctum Concilium 2