00:00Month of the Precious Blood of Jesus, a devotion that calls us to gaze deeply into the mystery
00:06of Christ's Passion, where every drop of his blood was poured out in love for us.
00:12As the letter to the Hebrews declares,
00:14Without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sins.
00:18Hebrews 9.22
00:19And it is not just any blood, but the blood of God himself, the Lamb without blemish,
00:26who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood.
00:31Revelation 1.5
00:33On the cross, Jesus was not only crucified in agony,
00:38he was offering a divine love beyond comprehension.
00:42His sacred heart beat with infinite mercy, even as it was slowly broken.
00:48The shoulder wound, long held in devotion by saints such as St. Bernard and St. Padre Pio,
00:53was so deep, that Christ revealed to St. Bernard, it caused him the greatest pain of all.
01:00Yet even there, he bore it silently for you, for me.
01:05Each scourge, each thorn, each nail was endured in love.
01:09A divine thirst, echoing his own words,
01:13I thirst.
01:14John 19.28
01:16Not merely for water, but for our souls.
01:20At the foot of the cross stood our blessed Mother, silent and sorrowful,
01:25a sword piercing her soul as foretold by Simeon.
01:29Luke 2.35
01:30She who gave him his body now witnessed that body being torn,
01:35his blood spilled upon the earth.
01:38With a mother's gaze, she saw the chalice of salvation being emptied.
01:42Yet even in her sorrow, she united her suffering to his.
01:46When the soldier pierced his side with a lance,
01:49and immediately blood and water flowed out.
01:52John 19.34
01:53It was not merely a sign of death.
01:56It was the birth of the Church,
01:58the opening of the floodgates of grace and mercy.
02:01Saints and mystics see in that piercing a divine love so immense
02:05that even in death, his heart could not remain closed.
02:10This blood, though shed two millennia ago,
02:13is alive and present.
02:16In every holy mass, the same sacrifice is offered.
02:20Not repeated, but re-presented.
02:23The blood upon the altar is the same blood from Calvary.
02:27In Eucharistic miracles, the veil is lifted.
02:31Consecrated hosts have bled.
02:33And even revealed myocardial tissue,
02:35the living heart of Jesus.
02:38Science confirms what faith proclaims.
02:40This is truly his body and his blood.
02:43Saints such as St. Catherine of Siena,
02:46St. Gaspar del Buffalo,
02:48and St. Alphonsus Liguori
02:49were consumed with devotion to the precious blood.
02:53Pope Pius XIX formally approved the litany of the precious blood in 1960.
02:58And from St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi to St. Brigitte of Sweden,
03:03heaven has entrusted souls with prayers and visions centered on this divine blood
03:08that pleads for us always before the Father.
03:11Hebrews 12, 24.
03:14Prayer of consecration to the precious blood of Jesus.
03:17O Jesus, divine Redeemer,
03:21I consecrate myself and my whole life to thy precious blood,
03:25the price of my salvation,
03:28the proof of thy burning love,
03:30and the remedy for my soul.
03:32Immerse me in thy wounds,
03:35wash me in thy blood,
03:37make me live only for love of thee.
03:39May thy blood defend me,
03:41heal me,
03:42and bring every soul to the foot of the cross.
03:45O blood of Christ,
03:47poured out for love,
03:49save us,
03:50and the whole world.
03:52Amen.
03:53Let this month be one of reparation,
03:56adoration,
03:57and deeper love.
03:59May we not pass by the cross with indifference,
04:03but kneel,
04:04like Mary and John,
04:06and behold the Lamb who was slain.
04:08His blood was not wasted.
04:11It is our hope,
04:12our healing,
04:14our salvation.
04:16You were not redeemed with corruptible things,
04:19but with the precious blood of Christ,
04:21as of a lamb without blemish,
04:23and without spot.
04:241 Peter chapter 1, 18-19
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