April 20th
Book Four, Chapter 14
Of the Ardent Desire of Some Devout Persons Towards the Body of Christ

Be merciful to me, O good Jesus, sweet and gracious, and grant Your poor mendicant to feel, sometimes at least, in the sacred Communion some little of the cordial affection of Your love, that my faith may be more strengthened, my hope in Your goodness increased; and that charity, once perfectly enkindled, and having tasted the manna of heaven, may never die away.  Powerful, indeed, is Your mercy to give me also the desired grace, and in Your great clemency, when the time of Your good pleasure arrives, to visit me with the spirit of fervor.  For though I burn not with so great desire as Your specially devout servants, yet by Your grace, I have a desire of this same greatly inflamed desire, praying and wishing that I may be made partaker with all such fervent lovers, and be numbered in their holy company.