This beautiful prayer was written by St Thomas Aquinas. <\/p>\n
I<\/span><\/span> give you<\/span><\/span> thank<\/span><\/span>s, <\/span><\/span>Lord, <\/span><\/span>holy <\/span><\/span>Father, <\/span><\/span>almighty and eternal<\/span><\/span> God, <\/span><\/span>who<\/span><\/span> hav<\/span><\/span>e<\/span><\/span>been pleased<\/span><\/span> to nourish me, a sinner and your unworthy servant<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> \u00a0with the precious Body and Blood of Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ<\/span><\/span>;<\/span><\/span> this through no merits of mine<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> but due solely to the graciousness of your mercy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n And<\/span><\/span> I pray that this Holy Communion may not be<\/span><\/span> an offence to be punished<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span>but <\/span><\/span>a saving plea for forgiveness. May it be for me<\/span><\/span> be <\/span><\/span>the<\/span><\/span> armo<\/span><\/span>u<\/span><\/span>r of faith and <\/span><\/span>the <\/span><\/span>shield of good will<\/span><\/span>. May it cancel my faults, destroy concupiscence and carnal passion<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> increase <\/span><\/span>charity and<\/span><\/span>patience, humility and obedience and all virtues<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> m<\/span><\/span>ay it be a firm defen<\/span><\/span>ce<\/span><\/span>against the<\/span><\/span> snares of all my enemies<\/span><\/span>, both<\/span><\/span> visible and invisible, <\/span><\/span>the complete calming of my impulses<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> both of the flesh and of the spirit, a firm adherence to you<\/span><\/span>,<\/span><\/span> the one true God, and<\/span><\/span> the joyful completion of my life\u2019s course.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n And I beseech you to lead me a sinner<\/span><\/span>to t<\/span><\/span>hat banquet beyond telling where, <\/span><\/span>with Your Son and the Holy Spirit, <\/span><\/span>you are the <\/span><\/span>true light<\/span><\/span> of your Saints, <\/span><\/span>full<\/span><\/span>ness of satisfied desire, eternal gladness, consummate delight and perfect happiness.<\/span><\/span> Through Christ our Lord. Amen.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This beautiful prayer was written by St Thomas Aquinas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-ryan-black","has-more-link","post-2769","format-standard","category-the-catholic-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p85OtW-IF","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2770,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2769\/revisions\/2770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stthomasneilston.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}