Giving Thanks!

Giving Thanks! A Prayer for After Holy Communion: Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for your very self -- your flesh and blood, body and soul, humanity and divinity -- for you are all good and the source of all that is good./ Thank you for your very self, dear Lord, for you are the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, the sin of disobedience and death; happy are we who are called to this supper of love and life./ Thank you for yourself, dear Jesus, for you are the Bread of Life, the new manna who comes down from heaven to nourish us unto life everlasting; for your flesh is food indeed and your blood is drink indeed, so that, in a most intimate way, we partake of the divine nature./ Thank you for yourself, dear Jesus, for you are the son of the Father -- the only-begotten son, one in being with the Father -- you are God! And yet you deigned to become man, to live for us and to die for us, because you love us; so that we too might be children of the Father and heirs to the Kingdom of Heaven./ Thank you for yourself, dear Jesus, for you are the son of Mary, you are truly man, like us in all things but sin. And on the Cross, as you suffered the most horrible pains for our sins, agonies of body and soul, you made sure to bequeath to us Mary to be our spiritual mother, to help us to follow you always, in good times and in bad. May we cherish our mom, taking her into our homes and hearts, and appreciating more and more the warmth and sweetness of her maternal embrace. Amen