I've been writing and rewriting this in my head for years. This is the first time I have put it down "on paper". Feel free to borrow it, use it, modify it, comment on it, etc. I don't believe it violates any basic tenets of the faith. I used "us" and not "me" because Communion is a community sacrament.
Prayer After Communion.
Heavenly Father, may this reception of the body and blood of Your Son, Jesus Christ bring peace to those of us who receive it. May this sacrament fill us with every grace, blessing and healing that we need to be better imitators of Christ and help build a dim reflection of Your heaven here on earth. May it keep us and sustain us until we next receive this sacrament. We ask this in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
(Funny, a lot harder to write than to say. The words come so easily in my prayer after communion. I had to struggle to remember them here and now, out of context)
beautiful...thank you for this prayer. Have a blessed New Year.
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