Meditation After Holy Communion

RECOLLECT, O my soul, where thou hast been, and what thou hast been doing. Thou hast been with Christ, Who is both God and Man, Who once was crucified for us on Mount Calvary; Who now comes to us in a Divine Mystery under the forms of Bread and Wine. Thou hast been joining with the Priest in pleading before God the Father, the Sacrifice of His Son once offered on the Cross. Thou hast been uniting with Angels and Archangels, in singing Holy, Holy, Holy, to the Ever-Blessed Trinity. Thou hast received Christ in the Holy Communion, you who are His Own image and likeness, though soiled and stained by sin. He has come to you and is now within you, to wash you from your sin, to show you His Life as a pattern for your own, to pour into you His grace that you may serve Him. Desire, O my Soul, to be made like unto Christ in all things, and, so far as is possible for man, to imitate His virtues, especially His Love, His Humility, His Purity, His Obedience. Seek from the Lord, O my Soul, so completely to do God’s will, to serve Him, to love Him, and to obey Him, that He may say of me as He said of David, “I have found a man after My own heart, which shall fulfill all My will.” Amen.