“During the days before Communion, desire to communicate as worthily as possible to have as much love as all the saints put together. Your mere desire will be rewarded.

Do all your actions as a preparation for Holy Communion. Converse with Jesus Christ who reigns in your heart by His grace. Think how He will come on the altar and from there into your soul to visit it and to enrich it with all sorts of good things and happiness. Implore the Blessed Virgin, the angels and the saints to pray to the good God for you and prepare you to receive Him.

The day of your Communion, come to Holy Mass a short time before it begins. Hear it still better than at other times. Have your beads or your office book, that your mind and heart may be all the time at the foot of the tabernacle; that it may long continually for the happy moments when Our Lord will come; that your thoughts may not be of this world, but all of heaven, and be so lost in God that you seem to be dead to the world.

Make acts with all possible fervor to reanimate in your soul, faith, hope and a great love for Jesus Christ, who will come soon to make of your heart His tabernacle, or if you wish a little heaven. My God, what a happiness, what an honor for such miserable creatures like us!”

(From The Eucharistic Meditations of the Cure of Ars)