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Wednesday 1 July 2015

Month "consecrated to My precious blood""

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Blood of Christ, Eucharistic drink and refreshment of souls, save us.



   "All this month is consecrated to My precious blood, and you think so little about it..."


HE AND i by Gabrielle Bossis 1969

Diary 1946

July - 11 -  Holy hour.

 "All this month is consecrated to My precious blood, and you think so little about it... And yet, there is fruit for your picking. The season of flowers is over. Now we are in the more solemn time of the harvest for the eternal garnering.
Don't be surprised at having to suffer for Me or at being tested and tried for My sake. These are records to be filled out for eternity. You take your place in the sacrifice for which the crown is prepared. You play your part in the unfinished symphony of My passion.
         
Love these last sufferings. They are part of your travel wardrobe. The most ordinary sufferings  -  heat, insects, unforeseen mishaps, petty annoyances that you offer Me in expiation  -  are part of the harvest of the autumn of your life in this ever - marvellous springtime of love. Aren't the seasons simultaneous in the bride - soul where the light of love never goes out? This little light illuminates everything in her, but she is so simple that she is not even aware of it.
 

As for Me, I see. You feel far from Me; you're afraid that you have left Me, and there I am in your centre.
Just keep your will for Me; that's enough. Your will in Mine  -  that's everything  -  for My joy and yours. I want you to be completely joyous. You will be when you have emptied yourself of self. Then you will no longer feel the gravity of life, but the gentle and buoyant breath of uplifting joy.  Do you believe what I'm telling you? Live in the home of the beloved ones."




Prayer of the Month
Prayer from the Roman Missal
Almighty, and everlasting God, who hast appointed Thine only-begotten Son to be the Redeemer of the world, and hast been pleased to be reconciled unto us by His Blood, grant us, we beseech Thee, so to venerate with solemn worship the price of our salvation, that the power thereof may here on earth keep us from all things hurtful, and the fruit of the same may gladden us for ever hereafter in heaven. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.  
  

Tuesday 30 June 2015

July Dedicated to the Most Precious Blood of Jesus


Wednesday, 1 July 2015

July Month of Precious Blood Dom Donald's Blog:

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The month of July (Overview - Calendar) is dedicated to the Precious Blood. The feast of the Precious Blood of our Lord was instituted in 1849 by Pius IX, but the devotion is as old as Christianity. The early Fathers say that the Church was born from the pierced side of Christ, and that the sacraments were brought forth through His Blood.
"The Precious Blood which we worship is the Blood which the Saviour shed for us on Calvary and reassumed at His glorious Resurrection; it is the Blood which courses through the veins of His risen, glorified, living body at the right hand of God the Father in heaven; it is the Blood made present on our altars by the words of Consecration; it is the Blood which merited sanctifying grace for us and through it washes and beautifies our soul and inaugurates the beginning of eternal life in it."
The Old Testament
Cain and Abel are making an offering. Abel's sacrifice is pleasing to God, Cain's is not. This gives rise to the sin of hatred, and fratricide is its resolution. The thirsting earth soaks up Abel's blood as it shouts to heaven for vengeance. This shouting prefigured the scene on Calvary, where Christ's Blood cried to heaven for the redemption of mankind.
Millenia pass, and now we see Israel oppressed by Egypt. God commands the people to kill a lamb and to sprinkle the doorposts with its blood; houses thus besprinkled are spared by the messenger of death. But where the doors are not reddened with the blood of the lamb, all male firstborn from king to slave die. This blood on the doorposts was a type of the Blood of Christ. Can the blood of a lamb save a man? No, but as a figure of the Redeemer's Blood it certainly does. For when the Destroyer sees the thresholds of a human heart marked with Christ's sacred Blood, he must pass by. And another soul is saved.
In a vision the prophet Isaiah saw a man treading out grapes (in the Orient, trampling upon grapes in the wine-press was the usual means of extracting the juice). The prophet asked the man: "Why are your garments so red? "The wine-press I have trodden alone," he answers, "because from the nations there is no one with me." The trodder of the wine-press is Christ, His garments crimsoned by the Blood of redemption.
Excerpted from The Church's Year of Grace , Pius Parsch
The New Testament
The Church reminds us of the first drops of blood that flowed for our redemption on the day when Jesus was circumcised.
It is night on Mount Olivet, and the moon is shining. We see the holy face crimsoned with blood during the agony in the garden.
Unhappy, despairing Judas casts the blood-money down in the temple. "I have betrayed innocent blood!"
In the scourging chamber we see the Lord in deepest humiliation; under raw strokes the divine Blood spurts out over the floor. Christ is led before Pilate. Pilate shows the blood-covered Body to the crowds: Ecce homo! We go through Jerusalem's streets following the bloody footsteps to Golgotha. Down the beams of the Cross blood trickles. A soldier opens the sacred side. Water and Blood.
Excerpted from The Church's Year of Grace , Pius Parsch
Symbols of the Precious Blood
Adam is sleeping an ecstatic sleep. God opens his side, removes a rib and forms Eve, the mother of all the living. But our view transcends this action and in spirit we behold the second, the divine Adam, Christ. He is sleeping the sleep of death. From His opened side blood and water flow, symbols of baptism and the Eucharist, symbols of the second Eve, the Church, the Mother of all the living. Through blood and water Christ willed to redeem God's many children and to lead them to an eternal home.
At Jerusalem a service in Yahweh's honor is taking place on the Day of Atonement. The high priest is making his annual entrance into the holy of holies to sprinkle the blood of bucks and bulls upon the covenant in expiation for the sins of the people. The Church shows us the higher meaning of this rite. Our divine High Priest Christ on the first Good Friday entered that Holy of Holies which is not made with hands nor sprinkled with the blood of bucks and bulls; there He effects, once and for all, with His own Blood man's eternal redemption.
A finale. Holy Church transports us to the end. The heavenly liturgy is in progress. Upon the altar is the Lamb, slain yet alive, crimsoned by His own Blood. Round about stand the countless army of the redeemed in garments washed white in the Blood of the Lamb. Hosts of the blessed are singing the new canticle of redemption: "You have redeemed us out of every tribe and tongue and nation by Your Blood."
Now from vision to present reality. How fortunate we are to have divine Blood so near to us, to offer it to the heavenly Father for the sins of the whole world!
Excerpted from The Church's Year of Grace , Pius Parsch
Devotion to the Precious Blood
Devotion to the Precious Blood is not a spiritual option, it is a spiritual obligation, and that not only for priests, but for every follower of Christ. I really believe that one of the symptoms of modern society (and I would even include, sadly, modern Catholic society) one of the symptoms of a growing, gnawing secularism is the lessening and the weakening of devotion to the Precious Blood. Devotion, as we know, is a composite of three elements: It is first- veneration, it is secondly- invocation, and it is thirdly- imitation. In other words, devotion to the Precious Blood of Christ, the Lamb of God who was slain, is first of all to be veneration on our part, which is a composite of knowledge, love and adoration. We are to study to come to a deeper understanding of what those two casual words, Precious Blood, really mean.
I found this passage in the oldest document, outside of sacred scripture, from the first century of the Christian era – to be exact, from Pope St. Clement I, dated about 96 A.D. Says Pope Clement: "Let us fix our gaze on the Blood of Christ and realize how truly precious It is, seeing that it was poured out for our salvation and brought the grace of conversion to the whole world."
To understand the meaning of the Precious Blood we must get some comprehension of the gravity of sin, of the awfulness of offending God, because it required the Blood of the Son of God to forgive that sin. We are living in an age in which to sin has become fashionable.
This veneration of the Precious Blood, which is the first element in our devotion to the Precious Blood means that we have a deep sensitivity to the awfulness of sin. Sin must be terrible. It must be awful. It must be the most dreadful thing in the universe. Why? Because it cost the living God in human form the shedding of His Blood.
Lord Jesus, You became Man in order by your Passion and Death and the draining of your Blood on the Cross, might prove to us how much You, our God, love us. Protect us, dear Jesus, from ever running away from the sight of blood. Strengthen our weak human wills so that we will not only not run away from the cross, but welcome every opportunity to shed our blood in spirit in union with your Precious Blood, so that, dying to ourselves in time we might live with You in Eternity. Amen
Excerpted from The Precious Blood of Christ, Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.
Blood of Christ, Eucharistic drink and refreshment of souls, save us.

Prayer of the Month

Prayer from the Roman Missal
Almighty, and everlasting God, who hast appointed Thine only-begotten Son to be the Redeemer of the world, and hast been pleased to be reconciled unto us by His Blood, grant us, we beseech Thee, so to venerate with solemn worship the price of our salvation, that the power thereof may here on earth keep us from all things hurtful, and the fruit of the same may gladden us for ever hereafter in heaven. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

Devotions to the Precious Blood of Christ

Precious Blood,
Ocean of Divine Mercy:
Flow upon us.
Precious Blood,
Most pure Offering:
Procure us every Grace!
Precious Blood,
Hope and Refuge of sinners:
Atone for us!
Precious Blood,
Delight of holy souls:
Draw us! Amen.

St. Catherine of Siena

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Blood of Christ falling upon the earth in the Agony. Have mercy on us.

Friday 1 May 2015

Month of May 2015

Month dedicated to Mary

Easter: May 1st

Optional Memorial of St. Joseph the Worker


Month of May 2015, Pope's Intentions


May
  • Universal: That, rejecting the culture of indifference, we may care for our neighbours who suffer, especially the sick and the poor.
  • Evangelization: That Mary's intercession may help Christians in secularized cultures be ready to proclaim Jesus.
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Month of May
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Giuseppe Magni - Adoration
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The Year of Consecrated Life;

The Mission of the Resurrection

As we celebrate now the joys and graces of this Easter season, we are drawn into the power of the Lord’s Resurrection. We see it in the transformation of Thomas’ doubt into faith, and in the undoing of Peter’s betrayal by his confession of love. In fact, all of the Apostles are brought from their fear-filled Upper Room to the hope-filled frontiers of the world. This is the living power of the Lord’s Resurrection that remains with the Church to this day.

In Pope Saint John Paul II’s apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata, he makes mention of the need to perceive consecrated persons in the light of the Resurrection. Because the “Paschal Mystery is the wellspring of the Church’s missionary nature” (#25), it lies at the heart of every vocation to consecrated life. No vocation is for itself alone. Even the cloistered nun and solitary hermit live their consecrated life for the good of the Church, for the conversion of the world to Christ.

“To the extent that consecrated persons live a life completely devoted to the Father (cf. Lk 2:49; Jn 4:34), held fast by Christ (cf. Jn 15:16; Gal 1:15-16), and animated by the Spirit (cf. Lk 24:49; Acts 1:8; 2:4), they cooperate effectively in the mission of the Lord Jesus (cf. Jn 20:21) and contribute in a particularly profound way to the renewal of the world” (VC #25).

Father James M. Sullivan, o.p., serves as director of the Institute for Continuing Theological Education at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.

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The First Mass
To see our Lord Jesus Christ appear in glory, we must await the end of history, when he will come again to judge the living and the dead. This is why when he appears after Easter, in what is called his glorified body, Christ bore no aspect of the triumphant: Mary Magdalene mistook him for the gardener, and the two disciples on the road to Emmaus thought him an ordinary traveler.
But here, represented in the inn at Emmaus, Rembrandt goes further: he doesn’t fear to show us a Jesus yet too human to be the risen One, his face distraught, like a Christ still undergoing his Passion. Thus the Painter of Light illustrates the words of Blaise Pascal, for whom “Christ will be in his death throes until the end of the world.” And it is true: Christ will be in agony as long as evil abounds, and so he is at each Mass—the source and summit of Christian life—making present and active, though without bloodshed, his supreme sacrifice on the cross for the glory of God and the salvation of creation.
On the altar, the Victim is truly the same as on the cross, just as the minister who offers the sacrifice is also the same. For the priest does not consecrate in his own person, but in persona Christi: he does not say, “This is Christ’s Body,” but, “This is my Body….”
Here Rembrandt represents, as it were, the first Mass—the first time in history the reenactment of Christ’s sacrifice was celebrated by Christ himself—after, it must be stressed, a powerful Liturgy of the Word expounded along the road. At the inn of Emmaus, Rembrandt captures Jesus at the very moment he speaks the words and makes the gestures of the Institution: “On the day before he was to suffer, he took bread in his holy and venerable hands, and with eyes raised to heaven, to you, O God, his almighty Father, giving you thanks, he said the blessing, broke the bread, and gave it to his disciples….”
Pierre-Marie Dumont
Christ at Emmaüs (detail), Rembrandt (1606–1669), Louvre Museum, Paris, France. © Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-GP / Philippe Fuzeau.