THE MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST


This feast was instituted only in 1849 but the devotion is as old as Christianity.  The early Fathers say that the Church was formed from the pierced side of Christ, and that the sacraments were brought forth through His Blood.  The special beauty of this feast is its centering of our attention directly on the Blood of Christ and its short cut to the heart of revelation.  In these days we need to think of the Passion of Christ; we do not know how God is going to test us.  Devotion to the Precious Blood is a fundamental, sane approach to God.  It is hard and painful;  it will help us to  save   our own hearts against weakness.
Taken from the Maryknoll Missal