Eucharistic Powerful Prayers



Many chapels and parishes partake in Eucharistic Adoration. During this time of devotion, time is dedicated to silent prayer and meditation before the Eucharist. Here are some of the best prayers for Eucharistic Adoration to use during this time.

Precious God, I thank You for sending Your Son who took some bread, blessed it and broke it saying, “Take it: this is My body.” Your Son also took a cup and gave thanks, He gave it to Your disciples who all drank from it saying, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.” Today, Lord, we are the many, we have come to give thanks for and partake in the sacrifice that You made for us, Amen.
Mark 14:22-24

Eternal Savior, Your Son came on this earth so that He could be the bread of life! Thank You, Lord, because those who come to You shall not hunger, and those who believe in You will never thirst. Thank You for satisfying our hunger and quenching our thirst! Because of You, we are made whole, because of Your sacrifice we are free! Precious Lamb, we do not take what You did for us for granted, Amen.
John 6:35

Dear Lord, You sent Your Son as the living bread that came down out of heaven. You promised that if anyone eats of this bread, they will live forever. The bread which You gave for the life of the world was Your flesh. Father, I am eternally grateful for the sacrifice that You made. You gave Yourself for the world, and You would do it all over again even if it was only to save me! I love You, Lord, Amen.
John 6:51

Holy God, Your word says that unless I eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, I will have no life in myself! He who eats Your flesh and drinks Your blood has eternal life, and You will raise him up on the last day, for Your flesh is true food, and Your blood is the true drink! I thank You for giving us life! We gather to have life and have it more abundantly in You as we partake in the Eucharist, Amen.
John 6:53-57

Blessed Father, even when Your Son knew that His hour had come that He would depart of this world to You in heaven, having loved Your own (disciples) who were in the world, You loved them to the end. During the supper, the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas to betray Jesus, but You still let Your Son die, so that He could rise and fulfill the law, and save us from eternal condemnation! Thank You for loving us so much, Father, Amen.
John 13:1-4

Mighty Warrior, I thank You for this special period. We gather with hearts of adoration. We continually devote ourselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, and to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Lord, we devote ourselves to the partaking of Your body and of Your blood as the Scriptures encourage us to. We partake in this so that we appreciate the fact that we have life in You, only by Your selfless sacrifice, Amen.
Acts 2:42

Holy God, I pray that day by day we continue with one mind in the church, and break bread from house to house. Let the Eucharist be an occasion that unites us as we reflect on the sacrifice that You made for us. Let us come together with gladness and sincerity of heart, praising You for all that You have done for us. We thank You for loving us so much that You gave Your only Son for us, Amen.
Acts 2:46-47

Awesome God, the cup of blessing that we bless at the Lord’s Supper is a sharing in the blood of Christ. The bread that we break is a sharing of the body of Christ. Since there is one bread, we believers who are many, are united into one body, for we all partake of the one bread which represents the body of Christ. We thank You for Your body and we thank You for Your blood that unites us, Amen.
1 Corinthians 10:16-17

Eternal God, I bless Your Name because You are awesome, and You are holy. I do not take the breaking of bread and the drinking of wine lightly because this is a choice that I have made to serve and accept You. I cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. I cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons. I pray that we reflect in our hearts before we partake because we do not want to provoke You to jealousy, Amen.
1 Corinthians 10:21-22

Precious Lord, I magnify Your Name because You sit high and lifted up! This day is special as we gather to invite Your body and blood within us so that we can live in You. I pray that we do not come for the wrong reasons like some of the church did in the book of Corinthians. Let us not come to eat the Lord’s Supper if we are hungry nor to get drunk. I pray that we respect what this is and glorify You through the partaking of the bread and the wine, Amen.
1 Corinthians 11:20-22



As we kneel before You, we recognize You as the Creator of all
Life. We thank You and praise You for the lives you have given to
us and to those we love. Give us a true and lasting respect for all
life, for we recognize it as coming from You. We pray for all who
have suffered or died as a result of disrespect whether that
suffering and death has come as a result of abuse, war, gossip,
or abortion. We pray for an end for all disrespect of life. As we
kneel before You we ask You to forgive all those who do not respect
the sanctity of life. We repeat the words you spoke as you hung
on the cross, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.'



Stay with us

"Stay with us today, and stay from now on, every day, according
to the desire of my heart, which accepts the appeal of so many hearts
from various parts, sometimes far away... Stay that we may meet You in
prayers of adoration and thanksgiving, in prayers of expiation and
petition to which all those who visit this basilica are invited...
May the unworthy successor of Peter and all those who take part in the
adoration of Your Eucharistic Presence attest with every visit and make
ring out again the truth contained in the Apostle's words: 'Lord, you
know everything. You know that I love you.' Amen".

(Source: On December 2, 1981 Pope John Paul II inaugurated perpetual
adoration in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel of St. Peter's Basilica with a Mass.
At the end of the Mass following exposition of the Blessed Sacrament he prayed,
in part: (see above) (L'Osservatore Romano, Dec. 14, 1981))



Consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

* Adorable Heart of Jesus, the tenderest, the most
amiable, the most generous of all hearts, penetrated with
gratitude at the sight of Thy benefits, I come to consecrate
myself wholly and unreservedly to Thee! I wish to devote all
my energies to propagating Thy worship and winning, if
possible, all hearts to Thee. Receive my heart this day, O
Jesus!

Or rather take it, change it, purify it, to render it
worthy of Thee; Make it humble, gentle, patient, faithful and
generous like Thine, by inflaming it with the fire of Thy
love. Hide it in Thy Divine Heart with all hearts that love
Thee and are consecrated to Thee; never permit me to take my
heart from Thee again. Let me rather die than grieve Thy
Adorable Heart. Thou knowest O Heart of Jesus, that the
desire of my heart is to love Thee always, to be wholly Thine
in life and in death, in time and eternity. Most Sacred
Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. Sacred Heart of Jesus, I
trust in Thee.



Hail to Thee, True Body

(A Prayer to our Eucharistic Lord)

Hail to thee, true body born
From Virgin Mary's womb!
The same that on the cross was nailed
And bore for man the bitter doom.

Thou, whose side was pierced and flowed
Both with water and with blood;
Suffer us to taste of thee,
In our life's last agony.

O kind, O loving one!
O sweet Jesus, Mary's Son!



Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

* I, (name), a faithless sinner, renew and ratify today
in Thy hands, O Immaculate Mother, the vows of my baptism; I
renounce Satan, his pomps and works; and I give myself
entirely to Jesus Christ, the Incarnate Wisdom, to carry my
cross after Him all the days of my life, and to be more
faithful to Him than I have ever been before.

In the presence of all the Heavenly court I choose thee
this day for my Mother and Mistress. I deliver and
consecrate to thee, as Thy slave, my body and soul, my goods,
both interior and exterior, and even the value of all my
good actions, past, present and future; leaving to thee the
entire and full right of disposing of me, and all that belongs
to me, without exception, according to Thy good pleasure,
for the greater glory of God, in time and in eternity. Amen.



Prayer to the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus

Heart of Jesus in the Eucharist,
I adore You.
Sweet Companion of our exile,
I seek You.
Holy God become man,
I beat with Your Heart.

Eucharistic Heart of Jesus,
solitary, abandoned,
humiliated, cursed,
despised, outraged,
ignored by men,
have mercy on us.
Lover of our hearts,
pleading for Your beloved,
patiently waiting for us,
eager to hear our confidences,
desirous of our devotion,
have mercy on us.
Heart of grace,
silent and wishing to speak,
Refuge of the hidden life,
Sharer of the secrets of union with God,
Eucharistic Heart of Jesus,
have mercy on us.

Jesus, Victim, I want to comfort You.
I unite myself with You.
I offer myself in union with You.
I count myself as nothing before You.
I desire to forget myself and think only of You,
to be forgotten and rejected for love of You,
not to be understood, not to be loved, except by You.
I will hold my peace that I may listen to You.
I will forsake myself in order to be lost in You.
Grant that I may quench Your thirst for my salvation,
Your burning thirst for my sanctification,
and that, being purged, I may give You a true and pure love.
I no longer want to deny Your expectations.
Take me. I give myself to You.
I entrust to You all my actions and thoughts -- my mind, that You may enlighten it,
my heart, that You may fill it,
my will, that You may establish it,
my soul and body, that You may feed and sustain them.
Eucharistic Heart of Jesus,
Whose Blood is the life of my soul,
may it no longer be I who live,
but You alone Who lives in me.



Prayer for the Spread of Perpetual Adoration

Heavenly Father, increase our faith in the Real Presence of Your Son Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
We are obliged to adore Him, to give Him thanks and to make reparation for sins.
We need your peace in our hearts and among nations.
We need conversion from our sins and the mercy of Your forgiveness.
May we obtain this through prayer and our union with the Eucharistic Lord.
Please send down the Holy Spirit upon all peoples to give them the love, courage, strength and willingness to respond to the invitation to Eucharistic Adoration.
We beseech You to spread Perpetual Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament in parishes around the world.
We ask this in the name of Jesus the Lord.  Amen

Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament
Help us to spread the glory of Your Son through Perpetual Adoration.

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At the Feet of Christ in the Eucharist

O Jesus, Divine Prisoner of Love, when I consider Your love and how You emptied Yourself for me, my senses deaden. You hide Your inconceivable majesty and lower Yourself to miserable me. O king of Glory, though You hide Your beauty, yet the eye of my soul rends the veil. I see the angelic choirs giving You honor without cease, and all the heavenly Powers praising You without cease, and without cease they are saying: Holy, Holy, Holy.

Oh, who will comprehend Your love and Your unfathomable mercy toward us! O Prisoner of Love, I love up my poor heart in this tabernacle that it may adore You without cease night and day. I know of no obstacle in this adoration: and even though I be physically distant, my heart is always with You. Nothing can put a stop to my love for You. No obstacles exist for me...

O Holy Trinity, One and Indivisible God, may You be blessed for this great gift and testament of mercy. Amen.

I adore You, Lord and Creator, hidden in the Most Blessed Sacrament. I adore You for all the works of Your hands, that reveal to me so much wisdom, goodness and mercy, O Lord. You have spread so much beauty over the earth and it tells me about Your beauty, even though these beautiful things are but a faint reflection of You, incomprehensible Beauty. And although You have hidden Yourself and concealed your beauty, my eye, enlightened by faith, reaches You and my souls recognizes its Creator, its Highest Good, and my heart is completely immersed in prayer of adoration.

My Lord and Creator, Your goodness encourages me to converse with You. Your mercy abolishes the chasm which separates the Creator from the creature. To converse with You, O Lord, is the delight of my heart. In You I find everything that my heart could desire. Here Your light illumines my mind, enabling it to know You more and more deeply. Here streams of grace flow down upon my heart. Here my soul draws eternal life. O my Lord and Creator, You alone, beyond all these gifts, give Your own self to me and unite Yourself intimately with Your miserable creature.

O Christ, let my greatest delight be to see You loved and Your praise and glory proclaimed, especially the honor of Your mercy. O Christ, let me glorify Your goodness and mercy to the last moment of my life, with every drop of my blood and every beat of my heart. Would that I be transformed into a hymn of adoration of You. When I find myself on my deathbed, may the last beat of my heart be a loving hymn glorifying Your unfathomable mercy. Amen.

(by St. Faustina)




Lauda Sion

By St. Thomas Aquinas


Laud, O Sion, thy Salvation
Laud in songs of exultation
this thy Shepherd and thy King:
All thy might in triumph raising
Praise Him Who surpasses praising
Far beyond thine honouring.

Be our theme of high thanksgiving
Living Bread and source of living
Set to-day before us here:-
Broken at that Supper blessed,
As by every mouth confessed,
For the brethren gathered there.

Laud be lifted, sweet and sounding,
Ringing from an heart abounding,
Rising into jubilee!
Laud in duteous celebration
Of this Table's consecration
For such high solemnity.

Lo, the King His Law revises;
Newer truth from elder rises,
Newer Law and Paschal rite.
Ancient truths their room surrender,
Glows the twilight into splendour,
Darkness vanishes to light.

That He wrought at supper lying
In remembrance of His dying
Christ hath bid His Church renew;
We the ordinance obeying,
Earthly bread and wine displaying,
Consecrate the Victim due.

Now the sacred truth receiving
We,- the Bread His Flesh believing
and the Wine His Blood to be,
What tho' eye and mind be failing,
Nature's order countervailing -
Grasp by faith the mystery.

Under diverse kinds concealed
While to sense yet unrevealed
Lies a wonder all-divine.
Flesh and Blood hath each its token
Yet abides there Christ unbroken
Hidden under either sign.

Perfect to the priest who breaks It,
Perfect in the hand who takes It,
Christ is undivided there.
One or thousands may receive Him
Yet true hearts in truth believe Him
Unconsumed everywhere.

Good and bad alike partaking
Each, by diverse lot, is making
One to woe and one to weal,
Each from each is set asunder:
Mark the word of grace and wonder -
One to hurt and one to heal.

Thus the Lord His Presence hiding
Dwells in many parts abiding, -
Every soul in Him confiding
Doubts not that the Whole is there.
He the One remaineth ever
Under every part: for never
Aught can Christ from Christ dissever,
still abiding everywhere.

The Bread of Angels, lo! is sent
For weary pilgrims' nourishment;
The children's Bread, not to be spent
On worthless dogs profane;
In types significant portrayed,
Young Isaac on the altar laid,
And paschal offerings duly made,
And manna's fruitful rain.

O Thou good Shepherd, Very Bread,
Jesu, on us Thy mercy shed;
Sweetly feed us,
Gently lead us,
Till of Thy Fullness us Thou give
Safe in the Land of those that live.
Thou who can'st all, and all dost know
Thou who dost feed us here below,
Grant us here to share
Thy banquet there,
Co-heirs and partners of Thy love
With the blest citizens above.

AMEN.

 



PRAYER

"Do grant, oh my God,
that when my lips approach Yours to kiss You,
I may taste the gall that was given to You;
when my shoulders lean against Yours,
make me feel Your scourging;
when my flesh is united with Yours, in the Holy Eucharist,
make me feel Your passion;
when my head comes near Yours,
make me feel Your thorns;
when my heart is close to Yours,
make me feel Your spear."

-St. Gemma Galgani





PRAYER

Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament

O Virgin Mary, Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, the glory of Christians, the joy of the universal Church, and the hope of the world, pray for us. Kindle in all the faithful a lively devotion to the most Holy Eucharist, so that they may all be made worthy to receive Holy Communion every day.

V. Pray for us, O Virgin Immaculate, our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament.
R. That the Eucharistic Kingdom of Jesus Christ may come among us!





PRAYER

Totus tuos
Totally yours,
Immaculate Conception, Mary my Mother,
Live in me,
Act in me,
Speak in me and through me,
Think your thoughts in my mind,
Love through my heart,
Give me your dispositions and feelings,
Teach, lead me and guide me to Jesus,
Correct, enlighten and expand my thoughts and behavior,
Posses my soul,
Take over my entire personality and life, replace it with Yourself,
Incline me to constant adoration,
Pray in me and through me,
Let me live in you and keep me in this union always.

- The Holy Father

 



Hail full of grace!

Hail full of grace!
With every virtue was the Virgin adorned who as a lamp carried the unquenchable Light more splendid than the sun.
Hail, full of grace, golden urn containing the heavenly Manna!
Hail, full of grace, quenching the thirst of men with the fresh water of the eternal fountain!
Hail, full of grace, spiritual ocean in whom was found the heavenly pearl, even Christ!
Hail, full of grace, glorious heaven containing the God whom the heavens cannot contain!
Hail, full of grace, excelling the cherubic throne of godly splendor!
Hail, full of grace, pillar of light containing God who leads His people through the desert!

You are blessed, O holy Virgin Mary, and most worthy of all praise, since from you has risen the Sun of justice, Christ our God.

V. In your glory and your splendor.
R. Go forth, advance with victory and reign.