His Blood Is Our Life

July 1, 2026By

Feast of the Precious Blood 2026
St. Gaspar del Bufalo began a life of devotion to the Precious Blood of Our Lord from a young age and, after becoming a priest, he preached far and wide in the country of Italy. He converted many non-Catholics, even criminals and Freemasons, and founded the Society of the Precious Blood. When Pope Pius IX was forced into hiding by the enemies of the Church, he instituted this great feast. Despite the relatively recent promulgation of the devotion, we can find reference to the Cross, and the Precious Blood which was shed upon it, as early as the Garden of Eden and the Tree of Life. In the Old Testament both the Chosen People and pagan cults would practice blood sacrifice, as if the whole world was anticipating the sacrifice of the Son of God in our Redemption. The blood of these sacrificial victims was sprinkled on the Israelites for the remission of their sins. The blood was considered the source of life, and it can truly be said that the Precious Blood of Christ is the source of our lives. Through His Blood we are united to Him, we are part of His Mystical Body. It is the spiritual Drink that lifts us to Heaven.
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Inebriated by His Blood

January 1, 2025By

Octave of Christmas 2025
This is the day on which Our Lord began to redeem us by shedding His Blood in the circumcision.  How many sins are committed at every moment?  Yet, the Precious Blood makes up for them infinitely.  How beautiful that our God still desires our love.  Today is also a feast for our Blessed Mother.  We can never do enough to show our love for her.  At the beginning of the new year, we rededicate ourselves to our God and His Mother and renew our promises to them.  The phrase Anno Domini was created so that every year would be measured from the most important day in history.  We must never forget that God created us to show forth His goodness and share with us his everlasting happiness in Heaven.
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Our Hope in His Blood

July 1, 2024By

Feast of the Precious Blood 2024
The devotion to the Most Precious Blood encompasses every aspect of our Faith, because it is through the merits of Christ’s Blood that all good things come to us.  The sacrifice of the Son of God surpasses all the sacrifices of mankind in every conceivable way.  Just as the Blood of Our Lord flowed from the wound in His side, the devotion to the Precious Blood flows from the devotion to the Sacred Heart.  In honoring the Sacred Heart, we honor Our Lord’s great love and mercy, while devotion to the Precious Blood pays homage to the fruit of that love in the Redemption.  Even our ability to give adequate thanksgiving to our Redeemer comes through the Eucharistic Body and Blood of the altar.  It is only in the infinite merits of the Precious Blood that we have hope for the future.
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He Bought The World

July 1, 2023By

Precious Blood 2023
This feast is the liturgical completion of Good Friday, the day when the Precious Blood was poured out for our salvation.  In these days when our holy Faith is in danger and under attack, we recall the great heritage of martyrs who shed their blood in imitation of Christ.  At the true Mass we have no doubt what takes place at the Consecration.  Christ’s death continues to the end of time and we are invited to be part of it.  If not for the Precious Blood no sins would be forgiven.
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This Is God’s Blood

July 1, 2021By

Precious Blood 2021
This feast was instituted by Pope Pius IX even before the liberation of Rome from the Freemasons in thanksgiving for the Church’s deliverance from these forces of evil.  The Blood of Christ was pre-figured in the Old Testament starting with Saint Abel.  The power of the Precious Blood is infinite and the least drop would save countless worlds so the greatness of God’s love is shown by His shedding every drop for our salvation.  We receive His Blood whenever we receive Holy Communion and are meant to be overwhelmed by His love.  St. Hildegard, a twelfth century mystic, saw how the Mass was celebrated with angels in attendance and how the chalice holding the Precious Blood was specially honored.
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The Triumph Of His Blood

July 1, 2020By

Feast Of The Precious Blood 2020
This feast marks a victory and stands in thanksgiving for it.  Pope Pius IX was exiled from Rome in 1848 by an army of the enemies of the Church.  He promised to honor the Precious Blood of Christ after God would restore him to Rome and that happened on the last days of June in 1849.  So, the pope fulfilled his promise and instituted the feast.  We realize the infinite value of the Blood of God which had been prophesied throughout the Old Testament.  The Holy Ghost taught that without the shedding of Blood there would not be redemption.  Our Lord completed His mission by dying on the Cross and shedding every drop of His Blood.  This Blood continues to save at by every Mass.  We must love and thank God always to live with Him in Heaven eventually.
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River of Mercy

July 1, 2019By

Feast Of The Precious Blood 2019
Devotion to the Precious Blood of Our Lord is based on the doctrine of the Incarnation whereby we know that all components of His Sacred Humanity belong to the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity and are thereby worthy of divine adoration and love.  God prepared us for His shedding of this price of our redemption by many examples in the Old Testament, beginning with Abel and being seen more dramatically in the blood of the Passover lambs.  The origins of the modern feast celebrating this come from the days of Pope Pius IX.  He instituted the feast in thanksgiving for the saving of Rome from its enemies in 1849.  The qualities of His Blood are seen in Its Litany.  Our spiritual life will be strengthened by our daily practice of devotion to the Precious Blood.
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Precious Blood, Save Us

July 1, 2018By

Precious Blood 2018
Although promulgated for the Universal Church in modern times, the roots of the feast of the Precious Blood can be traced back many centuries. Pope Pius IX elevated the feast in gratitude to the Precious Blood for saving the Church and restoring the pope to Rome. The infinite value of His Blood comes from the Incarnation of Our Lord which makes His Blood divine. This is the quality that gives His Blood its salvific efficacy and ability to remove sin. God is appeased by the Blood of Christ which saves us. Let nothing be an obstacle to our reception of His Blood in the Holy Eucharist at Communion time.
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Sharing Of His Blood

July 1, 2017By

Feast Of The Precious Blood 2017

The feast of the Precious Blood was instituted by the saintly Pope Pius IX in gratitude for the restoration of Rome to the Holy See.  St. Peter called Our Lord’s Blood Precious in his epistle and It is so because of the hypostatic union which joins Christ’s humanity to His divinity.  The Sacrifice of the Mass as that on Calvary depends on the shedding of this Blood and our communion with It.  Our bodies are thereby sanctified as temples of God and should never be cremated.  The Precious Blood sustained the early church during centuries of persecution so successfully that by the time of Constantine there were 1800 dioceses.  Finally, there is a special message for priests and aspirants to the priesthood on the sanctifying power of the Holy Mass as seen in the life of St. Bernadino Realino whose holiness was attested by miracles from his own blood.

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Power Of His Blood

July 1, 2016By

Feast Of The Most Precious Blood 2016

In this sermon Father traces the devotions to this awesome Feast and makes an astounding revelation of the fact that just one drop of the Precious Blood would have been enough of a sacrifice to save the entire world.  He also points out that human life is carried in the blood and by giving up His Blood, Our Lord completes the Ultimate Sacrifice for all mankind.  He reminds us that the Blood of the Lamb spread on the doorposts of the Jews was enough to save them from the Avenging  Angel of the Old Testament and the Blood of Our Lord was first shed at the circumcision and many times in copious amounts during His Passion and Death.  We have very much for which to be thankful.

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