PRAYER TO THE SS. SACRAMENT

O Word annihilated in the Incarnation, more annihilated still in the Eucharist,
we adore you under the veils that hide your divinity
and your humanity in adorable Sacramento.
In this state therefore your love has reduced you!
Perpetual sacrifice, victim continuously immolated for us,
Host of praise, thanksgiving, propitiation!
Jesus our mediator, faithful companion, sweet friend,
charitable doctor, tender comforter, live bread from heaven,
food of souls. You are everything for your children!
To a lot of love, however, many correspond only with blasphemy
and with the profanations; many with indifference and lukewarmness,
very few with gratitude and love.
Forgive, O Jesus, for those who insult you!
Forgiveness for the multitude of indifferent and ungrateful!
They also forgive for inconstancy, imperfection,
the weakness of those who love you!
Like their love, though languid, and light it more every day;
enlighten the souls who do not know you and soften the hardness of hearts
who resist you. Make yourselves loved on earth, O hidden God;
let yourselves be seen and possessed in Heaven! Amen.