Devotions for Holy Communion
Reflections on Holy Communion
The Voice of Christ
COME to Me, all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you (Matt. xi. 28).
The bread which I will give is My flesh for the life of the world (John vi. 52).
Take ye and eat: This is My body which shall be delivered for you: do this for the commemoration of Me (I Cor. xi. 24).
He, who eateth My flesh and drinketh My blood abideth in Me, and I in him (John vi. 57).
The words, which I have spoken to you, are spirit and life (John vi. 64).
With How Great Reverence Christ is to be Received
The Voice of the Disciple
THESE are Thy words, O Christ, the eternal Truth, though not all delivered at one time nor written in one place. Since therefore they are Thy words and they are true, they are to be received by me with thanks and with faith. They are Thine, and Thou hast spoken them; and they are also mine, because Thou hast delivered them for my salvation. I willingly receive them from Thy mouth, that they may be more inseparably ingrafted in my heart. Words of so great tenderness, full of sweetness and love, encourage me; but my sins terrify me, and my unclean conscience keeps me back from approaching such great mysteries. The sweetness of Thy words
