'I adore You, O Precious Blood of Jesus, flower of
creation, fruit of virginity, ineffable instrument of the Holy Spirit,
and I rejoice at the thought that You came from the drop of virginal
blood on which eternal Love impressed its movement; You were assumed by
the Word and deified in His person. I am overcome with emotion when I
think of Your passing from the Blessed Virgin's heart into the heart of
the Word, and, being vivified by the breath of the Divinity, becoming
adorable because You became the Blood of God.
I adore You
enclosed in the veins of Jesus, preserved in His humanity like the manna
in the golden urn, the memorial of the eternal Redemption which He
accomplished during the days of His earthly life. I adore You, Blood of
the new, eternal Testament, flowing from the veins of Jesus in
Gethsemane, from the flesh torn by scourges in the Praetorium, from His
pierced hands and feet and from His opened side on Golgotha. I adore You
in the Sacraments, in the Eucharist, where I know You are substantially
present. . .
I place my trust in You, O adorable Blood, our
Redemption, our regeneration. Fall, drop by drop, into the hearts that
have wandered from You and soften their hardness.'
St. Albert the Great
