Feast Of The Most Precious Blood Of Jesus July 1
For many dioceses there are two days to which the Office of the Precious Blood has been assigned, the office being in both cases the same. The reason is this: the office was at first granted to the Fathers of the Most Precious Blood only. Later, as one of the offices of the Fridays of Lent, it was assigned to the Friday after the fourth Sunday in Lent.
In many dioceses these offices were adopted also by the fourth Provincial Council of Baltimore (1840). When Pius IX went into exile at Gaeta (1849) he had as his companion the saintly Don Giovanni Merlini, third superior general of the Fathers of the Most Precious Blood. Arrived at Gaeta, Merlini suggested that His Holiness make a vow to extend the feast of the Precious Blood to the entire Church if he would again obtain possesion of the papal dominions. The pope took the matter under consideration, but a few days later sent his domestic prelate Jos. Stella to Merlini with the message: "The pope does not deem it expedient to bind himself by a vow; instead His Holiness is pleased to extend the feast immediately to all Christendom". This was 30 June, 1849, the day the French conquered Rome and the republicans capitulated. The thirtieth of June had been a Saturday before the first Sunday of July, wherefore the pope decreed (10 August, 1849) that henceforth every first Sunday of July should be dedicated to the Most Precious Blood.
Like the Sacred Wounds of Jesus, His Precious Blood
deserves special
honor because of its close relation to the Sacred Passion. That honor
was given to it from the beginning by the Apostles who praised its
redeeming power. (Rom. 5:9 "we are justified by His blood"; Heb. 13:12
"and so Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people by His blood,
suffered outside the gate"; 1 John 1:7 "and the blood of Jesus Christ,
His Son, cleanses us from all sin.") The Church has always held
devotion to the Precious Blood in high
esteem, since It is the Price of our salvation! Without the shedding of
the Blood of the Lamb of God, we could not be redeemed.Without His
cleansing and vivifying Blood coursing through the Church, there would
be no Mystical Body of Christ. Without His glorious Blood, the
Sacraments would have no effect. Without His redeeming Blood, Mary
would never have been conceived without sin, and there would be no
saints whatsoever,
for "they have washed their robes and made them white
in the Blood of the Lamb".
The Precious Blood has been given to us as the Treasure of the Church
which we may offer again and again for ourselves and for others.
What can we call more our own in Christ's Sacred Body than His Blood,
which He let fall to this earth from the Cross as the priceless
endowment of our souls? And yet how few are those who know how to
profit by it. Happy the soul who has found this treasure, the Precious
Blood of Jesus, and who makes use of It. To offer the Precious Blood of
Jesus let us take It wherever we are, in all we suffer, in all we do,
in all we feel of good or of evil,
to sanctify the one and repair the other. The offering of the Precious
Blood of Christ for the Holy Souls is a
mighty form of intercession on their behalf.
Please say the following prayer each day in July, the month dedicated to
Our Savior's Most Precious Blood, in reparation to His Sacred Heart,
from which flowed the last drops of His Precious Blood on the Cross.
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O Precious Blood of Jesus, infinite price of sinful man's redemption,
both drink and laver of our souls, Thou who does plead continually the
cause of man before the throne of infinite mercy. From the depths of my
heart I adore Thee, and so far as I am able I would requite Thee for the
insults and outrages which Thou does continually receive from human
beings, and especially from those who rashly dare to blaspheme Thee.
Who would not bless this Blood of infinite value? Who does not feel within himself the fire of the love of Jesus, who shed It all for us? What would be my fate, had I not been redeemed by this Divine Blood? Who has drawn it from the veins of my Savior, even to the last drop? Ah, this surely was the work of love.
O infinite love, which has given us this saving balm! O balm beyond all price, welling up from the fountain of infinite love! Grant that every heart and every tongue may be enabled to praise Thee, magnify Thee and give Thee thanks both now and forevermore.
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