+ Thoughts for the Month of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus +

The Precious Blood of Jesus has brought Absolution upon all men and for all our sins as countless as the stars of heaven. There is but one Baptism but there are many Absolutions; for the Sacrament of Penance is a fountain ever flowing, perennial and inexhaustible. But the one and only sin which is beyond the reach of Absolution – the one and only sin which the Precious Blood cannot absolve, is the sin that is not repented of; that is the sole and only sin that shall not be washed as white as snow!
If only we can live in an habitual sense of our perfect pardon & Absolution through the most Precious Blood of Jesus, of His friendship for us, of His perpetual presence, love and care, we shall have the root of perseverance firmly fixed in our will.

(Cardinal Manning)

Bishop Anthony writes: As we rejoice this month with Bishop Daryl on his Consecration as our new Northern Bishop, let us remember how in Christ, and through His Precious Blood, comes Reconciliation, and that in our Lord all things are made new. It is particularly poignant that one of Bishop Daryl’s Missions is that of The Precious Blood in Liverpool. The Feast of the Precious Blood celebrates above all else the absolute saving and absolving power of JESUS Who died in agony on Calvary and washed away, by the shedding of His Blood, the countless sins of all who truly believe in Him and indeed accept His redeeming work. Let us not keep this Divine Gift to ourselves, however, but spread it among our own friends and neighbours by our own teaching and example! Not always an easy task, but our bounden duty and service. Because our Lord’s most Precious Blood is for everyone if only they will come to its Fountain – Christ Himself!
JESUS offered His broken Body and shed for us His Precious Blood in unspeakable agony on the Cross. And, as we must never tire of saying, His Body and Blood are, if we want it, our constant Eucharistic Food – the Food without which we have no life – because He actually said so!
“He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in Me and I in him…so he who eateth Me, even he shall live by Me.”   (Saint John, Chapter 6)   So we eat and drink Him, whenever we receive Him at Holy Mass, at the hands of a valid Catholic or Orthodox priest, because He wants us to! We ourselves are flesh, blood and spirit, and Christ came to be one of us – truly God yet also truly man. In His divine Body and Blood we become united with Him for ever. It is a mystery which we shall only fully comprehend when we are at last with JESUS and see Him face to face.    + Laus Tibi Christe +

Let us pray:

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, Who didst shed Thy Precious Blood for the remission of our sins: we humbly pray that, after our earthly death, Thou wilt bring us rejoicing into Paradise where Thou livest and reignest with the Father in the unity of the Holy Ghost. Ever One God, unto ages of ages. + Amen +

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And a passing thought:

We are not what we seem to others, nor what we think ourselves; but what we are before God!

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OUR LADY OF VICTORIES AND SAINT PANCRAS, PRAY FOR US!

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