The Voice of the Disciple.
1. O Lord, my God, prevent thy servant in the blessings of thy sweetness, that I may approach worthily and devoutly to thy magnificent sacrament.
Raise up my heart towards thee, and deliver me from this heavy sluggishness;
Visit me with thy grace, that I may taste in spirit thy sweetness, which plentifully lies hid in this sacrament as in its fountain;
Illuminate also my eyes to behold so great a mystery, and strengthen me to believe it with an undoubting faith:
For it is thy work, not the power of man; thy sacred institution, not man's invention:
For no man can be found able of himself to comprehend and understand these things, which surpass eventh subtlety of angels.
What shall I therefore, an unworthy sinner, who am but dust and ashes, be able to search into, or conceive of so high and sacred a mystery?
2. O Lord, in the simplicity of my heart, with a good and firm faith, and in obedience to thy command, I come to thee with hope and reverence; and I do verily believe, that thou art here present in the sacrament, God and man.