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A Prayer After Communion
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My heart is filled with joy and my tongue with rejoicing. My soul proclaims the
greatness of the Lord and my spirit finds joy in God my Savior. I have  come to
You, O Lord, so that You may clothe me in purity that  I may be worthy to share
in Your joy.

Let my union with  You  today be everlasting.  Make  me increase in  virtue and
strengthen my faith and my hope. Let my partaking  of the  Holy  Communion be a
sign for my salvation and a robe of blessings for  my new  birth. Let it be for
the purification of my love and an everlasting joy for my soul and an answer to
my prayers before Your Holy Altar.

Here I give myself to Your mercy that  I  may unite with  You  and that You may
lead me according to Your will.

Guide my thoughts and my senses and my desires and bless them  that they may be
at  Your command. Revive  my soul, alert my conscience,  disperse all images of
the enemy and order the storms to calm,  be with me and quiet  my fears. Quench
my thirst  and kindle the fire of  Your love in  my  heart and correct  all  my
deficiencies.

Abide with me till the end of  my life on earth  for You alone  are my goal and
pleasure; You alone, my God, for ever and ever.

Amen