Because TheDailyMass.com is a webcast, it is impossible to partake in the Sacrament of Communion. However, we are encouraged to make an act of Spiritual Communion, an act expressing what was described by St. Thomas Aquinas as “an ardent desire to receive Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament and in lovingly embracing Him.” In a Spiritual Communion, we, with contrite and humble hearts, ask our Lord to come to us in the same way He would if we were able to receive the Sacrament. This can be done as often as one likes, informally in one’s own words or through one of the traditional prayers which appears below.