Oh Eucharistic Heart, oh sovereign love of the Lord Jesus, who have instituted the August Sacrament to remain here below in our midst, to give our souls your Flesh as food and your Blood as heavenly drink.
We firmly believe, oh Lord Jesus!, in this supreme love that instituted the Most Holy Eucharist. And here before this Host it is right that we adore this love, that we confess it and exalt it as the great center of the life of your Church.
This love is a compelling invitation for us, so that You can tell us: «Look how much I love you! Giving my Flesh as food and my Blood as drink, I want with this contact to excite your charity and unite you to Me; I want to carry out the transformation of your souls into Me, who am the Crucified... into Me, who am the Bread of Eternal Life; So give Me your hearts, live by my life, and you will live by God».
We recognize it. Oh Lord, such is the calling of your Eucharistic Heart! And we thank you; and we want, yes, we want to respond to it.
Grant us the grace to penetrate us well with this supreme love, by which, before suffering, you invited us to take and eat your Sacred Body. Engrave in the depths of our souls the firm purpose of being faithful to this invitation.
Give us the devotion and reverence necessary to honor and receive with dignity the gift of your Eucharistic Heart, this gift of your final love.
Thus, with your grace, we will be able to effectively celebrate the memory of your Passion, repair our offenses and our coldness, feed and increase our love for You, and always keep alive within our hearts the seed of blessed immortality. So be it.