| O how great is the abundance of Your sweetness, O Lord, which You have laid up for them that fear You. When I call to mind some devout persons who draw nigh to Your Sacrament, O Lord, with the deepest devotion and affection, then very often I am confounded in myself and blush for shame, that I approach Your altar and table of Holy Communion so carelessly and coldly, that I remain so dry and without affection, that I am not wholly kindled with love before You, my God, nor so vehemently drawn and affected as many devout persons have been, who out of the very earnest desire of the Communion, and tender affection of heart, could not refrain from weeping, but as it were with mouth of heart and body alike panted inwardly after You, O God, O Fountain of Life, having no power to appease or satiate their hunger, save by receiving Your Body with all joyfulness and spiritual eagerness. | |