Prayer for Spiritual Communion
Jesus, invite me to your Love Meal
At this Eucharistic Celebration in my heart.
Lead me to spiritual communion with you
And with my sisters and brothers.
Help me to put myself at your disposal
To awaken my heart for union.
Jesus, let me join you at the Last Supper.
There you prepared your heart for self-sacrifice
By washing the feet of your disciples
And drying them with a towel at your waist.
Would that I could wash their feet
To arouse my heart for self-sacrifice.
Jesus, I offer you my food and drink,
This bread and wine, symbol of my life.
Symbol of my desire to join you in sacrifice.
Symbol of my desire to enter into communion
With the Trinity of Love through your crucifixion,
Creating the fiery crucible of Divine Love.
Jesus, they crowned your head with thorns.
They beat your body with iron-studded
Whips to tear your flesh. They pounded nails
Through your hands to a wooden cross.
They nailed your feet to its vertical post.
They pierced your side with a lance.
Jesus, it is not your wounds that I love.
It is your love that I love.
It is your desire that I love—to bring me
Into communion with the Trinity of Love.
It is your eros that I love—to unite me
With you in one Mystical Body.
Jesus, make me one with you in sacrifice.
With your presence and love, consecrate
My gifts of bread and wine, my very self.
Fire up your crucible of Divine Love
With Calvary’s fire. Plunge me in and forge
And seal me in spiritual communion.
Jesus, co-mingle me with yourself
And my sisters and brothers in the bread
Of the hosts and in the wine of the chalice.
Anoint me for greater love and unity.
Make me Eucharist for sisters and brothers
To receive me as bread and wine.
Jesus, bring me into spiritual communion
With you and my sisters and brothers.
In your crucible of love, melt down
My intolerance of others’ differences with me
And from me. Let my spiritual communion
Help create the Beloved Community!
Amen.
