The Bread of Spiritual Life

WE magnify Thy name, O God most high! for the fulness of the life with which Thou hast surrounded us, for the largeness of the life of nature, for the life of the body, and its bread. And now we beseech Thee for the true knowledge, for the bread which cometh from above, that whatsoever in us is lovely and of good report, whatsoever in us is divine and eternal, being fed thereby, may greatly flourish, to our true eternal gain, and to Thy great glory. Evermore give us this bread; the bread of righteousness, of truth, of purity, of knowledge, and of wisdom, that we, being thus fed from heaven, may live the heavenly life, and lay hold at last upon the eternal reward, through Jesus Christ our Lord.—AMEN.