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Re: July Meditations on The Most Precious Blood
« Reply #30 on: July 29, 2017, 07:00:40 AM »
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    • July 29th

    The Precious Blood in the Sacrament of Penance


    The task of the Precious Blood in Baptism seems a comparatively light one, contrasted with that which it performs in the Sacrament of Penance. In Baptism, original sin is washed away; in Penance, actual sin. The former cleaves to us through no fault of our own; the latter is the result of our own deliberate deed. It makes us the enemies of God in quite a different sense. It places us, or rather, we place ourselves of our own free-will, under the power of Satan; voluntarily we forfeit our inheritance, and proclaim ourselves rebels. The task of reconciliation is a far more difficult one, and is only possible with our own cooperation.

    Yet the Precious Blood restores the sinner to his allegiance, and frees him from the power of Satan, when he comes anxious to be delivered. As soon as it touches the soul of the sinner, it washes it as clean and pure as if he had never sinned, and restores him to peace and friendship with God. Who has not witnessed its transforming power, and seen the sinner, before hardened, depressed, almost in despair, now become full of peace and consolation and joy under its Divine influence.

    We cannot wonder at our Lord's cry of agony in Gethsemane or at His sweat of blood, when we think what it was that the Precious Blood had to efface from our souls. What an horrible accuмulation of pride and selfishness and impurity and covetousness! Such a cleansing could only be gained at the cost of a sacrifice infinite in value. O Jesus! make me to appreciate more Thy Divine love.
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    Re: July Meditations on The Most Precious Blood
    « Reply #31 on: July 31, 2017, 06:14:58 AM »
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    • July 30th

    The Precious Blood in Holy Commnion


    If in other sacraments the Precious Blood is morally applied to the souls of those who receive them, in Holy Communion it is physically communicated to body as well as soul. We have the wonderful privilege of being brought into bodily contact with the Precious Blood, whether it be under the species of wine in the chalice, or of bread in the Sacred Host. How pure our bodies should be if they are thus to touch the source of all purity, the Holy of Holies, the God Whose infinite purity is such that the very Angels are not pure in His sight--how can we venture thus to touch Christ Himself--to receive the Precious Blood into our sinful and impure bodies?

    Yet Christ our Lord invites us to do so. In His inexplicable love for us. He desires us, asks us, to receive His Precious Blood in Holy Communion. Instead of saying, as He did to Mary, "Touch Me not"; He says, "Drink, O My friends, and be inebriated, O My dearly beloved." Admire His Divine condescension, and beware of presuming on His patience and His love.

    How are we to account for Jesus' willingness, nay, anxiety to be thus received by sinful men? It is because in thus communicating Himself to us. He makes us more like to what He Himself is, and what He desires us to be. The Precious Blood imparts to our souls all heavenly gifts and graces, if we receive it as we ought. O Jesus! grant that I may receive Thee frequently, fervently, and with a complete oblation of my whole self!
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    Re: July Meditations on The Most Precious Blood
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    July 31st

    The Precious Blood in Heaven


    In Heaven, the Precious Blood of Jesus will not only share the glory of His Sacred Humanity, but it will be the source of its Divine beauty, for the glory of Jesus will then consist in having bought us with a great price. That price was none other than His Precious Blood. It will be a continual source of joy and thanksgiving to us, and will ever remind us of our ransom from sin and Hell, and of the unspeakable blessings we shall then enjoy. Grant, O Lord, that I may share that joy!

    The special glory of the Precious Blood appears to be ever present in the minds of the redeemed in Heaven, and to form the subject of their songs of praise. "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive honor and glory and power." "Thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God in Thy blood." "We have washed our robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb." If this is to be the continual song of Heaven, we must try to anticipate it on earth by cultivating a devotion to the Precious Blood of Jesus.

    The Precious Blood will also receive the unceasing homage of the Blessed in Heaven on account of Its having won for them all their graces. It purchased for them the glory that they now enjoy. In the overflowing of their hearts they will recognize It as the fount of all those delights that will inebriate their souls. Through It they drink of the waters of life, through It they gaze in ecstasy on the glory of Jesus, through It they are absorbed in the Beatific Vision. O my Lord! it is to Thy Precious Blood that I owe everything in this life, and shall owe my eternal happiness in the life to come. Oh, make me full of unspeakable gratitude to Thee now and for ever!

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