July

July 21st — The First Shedding of the Precious Blood. 1.  It was but a few days after Our Lord’s Birth that his Precious Blood first flowed for the sins of men.  It was on the occasion of His circumcision, the rite which is generally believed to have been the condition of the cleansing away…

July 20th — The Precious Blood a Lesson of Charity. 1. “He loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own Blood” (Apoc. i. 5). St. John, the apostle of love, mentions this as the primary mark of the love of Jesus for us.  He proved His love by saving those He loved…

July 19th — The Precious Blood a Lesson of Patience. 1.  If we watch the Son of God during those scenes in His sacred passion in which He shed His blood for us, we notice in one and all His exceeding and incomparable patience.  During the agony in the garden it was the sight of…

July 18th — The Precious Blood a Lesson of Sacrifice. 1.  Why did the Eternal Father choose for His co-equal Son that He should close His sojourn on earth by the cruel agony and unspeakable degradation of shedding for man the last drop of the Precious Blood?  Would it not have sufficed to redeem us…

July 17th — The Precious Blood quenching the Flames of Hell. 1.  Mortal sin can only have two endings: to be blotted out by the Precious Blood, or incur the eternal punishment of hell.  By the first it is totally extinguished; by the second it is retained as a testimony to the justice of God…

July 16th — The Trampling on the Precious Blood. 1.  There are some who not only waste the Precious Blood, but actually trample it under their feet.  These are they who, being washed from all their sins in the most Precious Blood of Jesus, deliberately turn back again to the sins they have abandoned, and…

July 15th — The Waste of the Precious Blood. 1.  It seems a strange thing to say that the Precious Blood of Jesus was wasted, and in one sense it is true that every drop fulfilled the design for which it was shed in the honor it gave to God and the immeasurable reward that…

July 14th — Sanctification by the Precious Blood. 1.  The Precious Blood does not only wash away the sins of men and restore them to friendship with God.  This is but the commencement of its work of love and mercy.  It has in it unlimited power to carry them on to the heights of sanctity,…

July 13th — The Conquests of the Precious Blood. 1.  Victory without conquest is but of little avail to one who invades the territory of the foe.  Our Lord came not only to subdue His enemies, but to obtain for Himself a kingdom.  By the shedding of the Precious Blood the kingdoms of this world…

July 12th — The Victories of the Precious Blood. 1.  The Precious Blood has conquered sin and Satan.  It was the shedding of it on the cross which gave the death-blow to the kingdom of the devil.  It was when the Son of God had by the loss of His Sacred Blood been reduced to…