ACT OF FAITH IN THE REAL PRESENCE
 

O MY JESUS, dwelling in the Blessed Sacrament, as the meanest
of Thy creatures, lost in my own nothingness, prostrate before the
throne of Thy great Majesty, profoundly do I adore Thee with all my
spirit, with all the powers of my soul; and here I acknowledge Thee,
veiled beneath the Sacramental Species, as my God, my Creator,
my last end. With true and living faith I believe that in this adorable
Sacrament Thou Thyself, true God and true Man, art present, Who
being the sole-begotten Son of God didst yet, from Thy great love
for man, take to Thyself human flesh in the most pure womb of Mary
ever Virgin, by the operation of the Holy Ghost; therefore wast Thou
born poor, in a vile manger; therefore didst Thou live subject to men.
And now that, having conquered death and Hell, Thou dost sit glorious
at the right hand of Thy Father, I believe that, without abandoning the
Heavenly throne of Thy glory, Thou dost yet dwell substantially and
really in this ineffable Sacrament, wherein I glorify Thee as God in
the firmament of Thy Church, as the Lamb enthroned upon His seat
of love, as the Priest of the Sanctuary of all grace, as the sweet Manna
of all consolation and as the Arbiter of my eternal fate in this court of
mercy. Yes, my dear Jesus, all this I declare and believe, as Thou hast
commanded me, and as Thy spouse, the Catholic Church,
my mother, teaches. Amen.