Prayers & Hymns for Eucharistic Adoration

Meditation on the Eucharist

Deacon Clarence Enzler, in his book My Other Self, reflects on the Eucharist and puts these words on the lips of Jesus:

"When you begin to understand the Eucharist...you will begin to comprehend the depths of my love for you. Look at the Host...a wafer of bread. Never were appearances so deceiving! The host is myself...healer of lepers, giver of sight...he who wept at Lazarus' grave, who asked drink of the Samaritan woman...who forgave the adulteress...the Teacher, the Savior... Can you think of a better way for me to give you spiritual sustenance? Do you not see the love that prompts your God...how zealously I work to bring you close to me? To give myself to you...I had to make myself unlike you. I hid myself under the likeness of common food because I did not want you to shrink from coming to me. When I come to you in the Eucharist...I am in you! You are in me! In the Eucharist we become one flesh. You work not...alone, but I work in you. You serve others...not alone...I serve in you. You suffer, not...alone, but I suffer in you. You adore with me; you give thanks with me; you love with me; you live now, not yourself...but I live in you!"

Prayers

The Divine Praises

Blessed be God.
Blessed be his holy name. 
Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true man.  
Blessed be the name of Jesus. 
Blessed be his most Sacred Heart. 
Blessed be his most Precious Blood.
Blessed by Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.                                            
Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete.                                                                  
Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most holy.                                                   
Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception.                                                           
Blessed be her glorious Assumption.                                                                           
Blessed be the name of Mary, virgin and mother.                                                             
Blessed be St. Joseph, her most chaste spouse.                                                                
Blessed be God in his angels and in his saints. 
Amen.
 

I Devotedly Adore You

O Godhead hid, devoutly I adore Thee,
Who truly art within the forms before me;
To Thee my heart I bow with bended knee,
As failing quite in contemplating Thee.
 
Sight, touch, and taste in Thee are each deceived;
The ear alone most safely is believed:
I believe all the Son of God has spoken,
Than Truth's own word there is no truer token.

God only on the cross lay hid from view;
But here lies hid at once the manhood too;
And I, in both professing my belief,
Make the same prayer as the repentant thief.
 
Thy wounds, as Thomas saw, I do not see;
Yet Thee confess my Lord and God to be;
Make me believe Thee evermore and more;
In Thee my hope, in Thee my love to store.
 
O Thou memorial of our Lord's own dying!
O living bread, to mortals life supplying!
Make Thou my soul henceforth on Thee to live,
Ever a taste of heavenly sweetness give.

O loving Pelican! O Jesus Lord!
Unclean I am, but cleanse me in Thy Blood!
Of which a single drop, for sinners split,
Can purge the entire world from all its guilt.

Jesus, whom, for the present, veil'd I see,
What I so thirst for, oh! vouchsafe to me;
That I may see Thy countenance unfolding,
And may be blest Thy glory in beholding.

May the Heart of Jesus,
in the most Blessed Sacrament
be praised, adored, and loved
with grateful affection
at every moment
in all the tabernacles of the world,
now and until the end of time.

Prayer Given to the Children of Fatima

Spiritual Communion

Recite three times:
Let us forever adore the most Holy Sacrament
Our Father . . .
Hail Mary . . .
Glory Be . . .

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Hymns

O Sacrament Most Holy

O Sacrament most holy,
O Sacrament divine,
All praise and all thanksgiving
be every moment thine.

Holy God We Praise Thy Name

Holy God, we praise thy name!
Lord of all, we bow before thee,
All on earth thy scepter claim,
All in heaven above adore Thee;
Infinite thy vast domain,
Everlasting is thy reign.