While often prayed when an individual is unable to receive the Eucharist at Mass, prayers of spiritual communion can also be prayed whenever we want to invite God to dwell within our heart.
Here is a small collection of Catholic prayers for spiritual communion that you can use to enrich your spiritual life.
Short Prayer of Spiritual Communion
O my divine Jesus, how great is my desire to receive your sacred body!
Oh, come now into my soul, at least, by a spiritual communion!
O Jesus, my divine Savior, save me.
O my God, hiding myself with a humble confidence in your dear wounds, I give up my soul into your divine hands.
Oh, receive it into the bosom of your mercy. Amen.
Long Prayer of Spiritual Communion
O my God, ocean of holy love and sweetness, come and give yourself to my soul. Grant that with a perfect heart, full desire, and burning affection, I may unceasingly desire after you, and lovingly rest in you. May I prefer you to every creature, for you renounce every transitory delight, O my true, my highest joy!
Feed me, Lord, a poor, famished beggar, with continual draughts of your love; refresh me with the wished-for presence of your grace. This I seek, this I long for, that a vehement love may penetrate me through and through, and fill me.
Grant, O most loving Redeemer, that I may be wholly inflamed with the love of you, that I may delight only in you. O overflowing abyss of divinity! Draw me to you, and immerse me in yourself; so seize and take to yourself all the affection of my heart. Amen.
