Kind God, may I receive the
Body of Your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, born from the womb of
the Virgin Mary, and so be received into His mystical body and numbered among
His members.
Loving Father, as on my
earthly pilgrimage I now receive Your beloved Son under the veil of a
sacrament, may I one day see Him face to face in glory, who lives and reigns
with You forever. Amen. By Knights of the Holy Eucharist Magnificat
This is the child I prayed for: he is made over to the
Lord
When Hannah had weaned the infant Samuel, she took him up with her together with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour and a skin of wine, and she brought him to the temple of the Lord at Shiloh; and the child was with them. They slaughtered the bull and the child’s mother came to Eli. She said, ‘If you please, my lord. As you live, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you, praying to the Lord. This is the child I prayed for, and the Lord granted me what I asked him. Now I make him over to the Lord for the whole of his life. He is made over to the Lord.’ There she left him, for the Lord.
My heart exults in the Lord my Saviour
My heart exults in the Lord.
I find my strength in my God;
my mouth laughs at my enemies
as I rejoice in your saving help.
The bows of the mighty are broken,
but the weak are clothed with strength.
Those with plenty must labour for bread,
but the hungry need work no more.
The childless wife has children now
but the fruitful wife bears no more.
It is the Lord who gives life and death,
he brings men to the grave and back;
it is the Lord who gives poverty and riches.
He brings men low and raises them on high.
He lifts up the lowly from the dust,
from the dungheap he raises the poor
to set him in the company of princes
to give him a glorious throne.
For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s,
on them he has set the world.
The Almighty has
done great things for me
Mary said:
‘My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord
and my spirit exults in God my saviour;
because he has looked upon his lowly handmaid.
Yes, from this day forward all generations will call
me blessed,
for the Almighty has done great things for me.
Holy is his name,
and his mercy reaches from age to age for those who
fear him.
He has shown the power of his arm,
he has routed the proud of heart.
He has pulled down princes from their thrones and
exalted the lowly.
The hungry he has filled with good things, the rich
sent empty away.
He has come to the help of Israel his servant, mindful
of his mercy
– according to the promise he made to our
ancestors –
of his mercy to Abraham and to his descendants for
ever.’
Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months and then
went back home.
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