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2763 All the Scriptures - the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms - are fulfilled in Christ. (cf. Luke 24:44) The Gospel is this Good News. Its first proclamation is summarized by St. Matthew in the Sermon on the Mount; (cf. Matthew 5-7) the prayer to our Father is at the center of this proclamation. It is in this context that each petition bequeathed to us by the Lord is illuminated:
The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect of prayers . . . . In it we ask, not only for all the things we can rightly desire but also in the sequence that they should be desired. This prayer not only teaches us to ask for things but also in what order we should desire them.
This is unlike the Spiritual Communion we should ask for when we are not properly disposed (due to mortal sins we have not confessed) to receive Holy Communion sacramentally at Mass.
When we ask for that Spiritual Communion we are asking specifically to receive our Lord in a non-sacramental manner. The prayer goes like this:
Spiritual Communion
O Lord Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the Altar.
I love you above all things, (with all my mind, with all my heart, and with all my soul).
I love you because you are infinitely good and worthy of all my love.
Since I cannot receive You now sacramentally, at least come spiritually into my heart.
I embrace myself entirely to You and unite myself wholly to You.
Never permit me to be separated from You.
Come Lord Jesus and glorify Yourself through my weak, broken body.
Amen.
I hope this helps,
Mike
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