Precious Blood of Jesus

[Wigglesworth]

The Roman Catholic Church, and at least one member of the Polish National Catholic Church, have dedicated the month of July to the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ.

Please feel welcome to join fellow Christians throughout the world in this daily prayer:

Petition in Honor of the Precious Blood

Precious Blood of Jesus,
shed in the circumcision,
make me pure of mind, heart and body.

Precious Blood,
oozing from every pore of Jesus in the Agony,
enable me to love God's holy will above all.

Precious Blood,
flowing from the scourging at the pillar,
inspire me with a sorrow for my sins,
and a tolerance for suffering.

Precious Blood,
falling in profusion from the crown of thorns,
grant me a ready acceptance of humiliations.

Precious Blood,
shed profusely in the crucifixion of our Lord,
make me die entirely to self-love.

Precious Blood,
shed to the very last drop by the opening of Christ's Sacred Heart,
give me that generous love which sacrifices all for God.

Precious Blood,
sacred price of my redemption,
apply to me your infinite merits.

Precious Blood,
I adore you from the depths of my heart;
I invoke you ardently, for you are my salvation,
and by you I hope to obtain the joys of heaven.
Amen.

 

[Wigglesworth]

Saint Gaspar del Bufalo is identified as the Apostle of Devotion to His Most Precious Blood.

Gaspar's Devotion to the Precious Blood


As devotion to the Precious Blood was the dynamo energizing all his apostolic endeavors, so was it the heartbeat of his spiritual life. He saw all the mysteries of Christianity in some way or other tinged with the crimson of the Blood of Christ. In one of his manuscripts he penned the following words:

All the mysteries are focused in the infinite Price of our Redemption like the radii of a circle converging in the center. In this devotion all the truths of faith are summed up. For this reason we say in the consecration of our chalice: the "Mystery of Faith."​

From: Catholic Culture

 

[Wigglesworth]

The Confraternity of the Precious Blood - Anyone can enroll for a year, receive a prayer book and a blessed medal, and share in the corporate prayer of others around the world.

If you need more discipline in your prayer life, maybe it would help to enroll in an association in which you would commit to corporate prayer with others around the globe.

The Book of Common Prayer does provide for scheduled prayer as well. So, by all means, if that is what you use, I encourage you to continue using it.

This is a helpful discipline that I've found to be lacking in "less structured" Christian traditions. The fundamentalists in one of my former churches would bristle at "reading prayers someone else wrote" every morning and evening, but it is natural to add spontaneous prayers to the written ones. The most important need I find this meeting is that I take TIME to do it now, and I didn't make TIME to do it as much before.

 

[gtsecc]

John6:53 So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you;

 

[MyLordIsMyLife]

My Fellow Worshipers of Dearest Jesus ....

You could drink all the honey on this planet,
You could hear the sweetest words from your true love,
You could smell the sweetest flower planted by the hand of God...

but you would still not possess the sweetness of one drop of the Precious Blood of our Lord, which saves us and fills us with bliss and love and gives us true life. Let us all implore, in the words of Saint Gemma: "O Jesus, let me come to Thee; I thirst for Thy life-giving Blood." Amen.

May the Blood we adore bring an end to our sins, and may it be the beloved drink of our souls forever.

 

[Albion]

My Fellow Worshipers of Dearest Jesus ....

You could drink all the honey on this planet,
You could hear the sweetest words from your true love,
You could smell the sweetest flower planted by the hand of God...

but you would still not possess the sweetness of one drop of the Precious Blood of our Lord, which saves us and fills us with bliss and love and gives us true life. Let us all implore, in the words of Saint Gemma: "O Jesus, let me come to Thee; I thirst for Thy life-giving Blood." Amen.

May the Blood we adore bring an end to our sins, and may it be the beloved drink of our souls forever.

I am more comfortable worshipping Christ rather than individual body parts.

It raises an interesting question in me, though. Does anyone know where this practice originated?

 

[Aymn27]

I am more comfortable worshipping Christ rather than individual body parts.

It raises an interesting question in me, though. Does anyone know where this practice originated?

I am comfortable being "washed" in His blood, and partaking of His body and blood - but I think worshipping His "blood" is a little strange - sorta like the whole baby Jesus devotion - I just find that odd for some reason...

 

[Albion]

I am comfortable being "washed" in His blood, and partaking of His body and blood - but I think worshipping His "blood" is a little strange - sorta like the whole baby Jesus devotion - I just find that odd for some reason...

That says it well for me, too. Or the Sacred Heart (of Jesus), as though the blood pumping device deserves a special devotion. I don't want to jump all over Wiggs' message, but I do wonder where and when this practice originated, since there's nothing in the Bible about it being advisable, not as far as I remember.

 

[AngCath]

I am comfortable being "washed" in His blood, and partaking of His body and blood - but I think worshipping His "blood" is a little strange - sorta like the whole baby Jesus devotion - I just find that odd for some reason...

Not an Infant of Prague devotee?
I'll admit it sounded strange to me for a while, but I now find such devotions fruitful.

 

[Aymn27]

Not an Infant of Prague devotee?
I'll admit it sounded strange to me for a while, but I now find such devotions fruitful.

How exactly do you find it fruitful - I'm wondering - as a RC I've said the Rosary many times and never found it spiritually fruitful....nor has any novena, etc - I'd just like your take on what it does for you spiritually - I may have been doing something "wrong"! lol...

 

[norbie]

I am more comfortable worshipping Christ rather than individual body parts.

It raises an interesting question in me, though. Does anyone know where this practice originated?

Last supper! This is why we celebrate the Holy Eucharist because Jesus said 'do this in memory of me'. And when we pass on the cup we say 'the blood of Christ strenghten you'.
Every Sunday we celebrate this last supper to remember that Jesus gave his blood for us.

 

[Albion]

Last supper!

No. Jesus didn't say to his Apostles to worship the elements.

I wonder if the worship of body parts came in fairly early, like within the first several centuries. Or if it was much later. It has that Medieval ring to it, but maybe someone has studied it and can say for sure.

 

[AngCath]

How exactly do you find it fruitful - I'm wondering - as a RC I've said the Rosary many times and never found it spiritually fruitful....nor has any novena, etc - I'd just like your take on what it does for you spiritually - I may have been doing something "wrong"! lol...

the various devotions help me to meditate more thoroughly on the different mysteries of faith. For example the various mysteries of the rosary, the emphasis on the Incarnation of the Angelus or the novena to the Infant of Prague, or an emphasis on the Blessed Sacrament with devotions to the precious blood, etc.

 

[norbie]

No. Jesus didn't say to his Apostles to worship the elements.

I wonder if the worship of body parts came in fairly early, like within the first several centuries. Or if it was much later. It has that Medieval ring to it, but maybe someone has studied it and can say for sure.

Could you be so kind and explain this more what you mean? I have never heard about that any Religion worship 'bodyparts'? And do this in rememberence of me is fare away from worshiping something.

BTW:
The Roman Catholic Church, and at least one member of the Polish National Catholic Church, have dedicated the month of July to the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ

This just means that we remember that Jesus shed his precious blood for our sins. No worship involved here.

 

[Wigglesworth]

The life of the flesh is in the blood. I read that somewhere. By venerating the Blood of Christ, we venerate the Life He gives to those who love Him.

It is not a worship of body parts. Just as there is more than wine on the altar during the celebration of the Eucharist, there is more than body parts in the Precious Blood and the Sacred Heart. There is life in the Blood.

There is power in the Blood. I heard that in a song somewhere when I was a Fundamentalist.

Likewise, the Heart of Jesus is more than an organ for circulating oxygen throughout the physical body. Many times, the word "heart" is written in Scripture when the meaning is not the physical organ.

The Catholic understanding of the Precious Blood and the Sacred Heart is much deeper than the pictures on holy cards would lead you to believe.

Peace be with you.

 

[Albion]

Could you be so kind and explain this more what you mean? I have never heard about that any Religion worship 'bodyparts'?

I think you're toying with me, Norbie. Surely you know of the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the representations of it with Jesus showing his heart as though the chest were torn away. Two different posters in this thread posted lines that spoke of adoring His blood.

This just means that we remember that Jesus shed his precious blood for our sins.

To "adore" does not mean "we remember."

 

[Albion]

Look, all.

You can DO this. I merely said that I don't.

Beyond that, I was interested to know when it first entered into the Christian history. Anyone know?

 

[AngCath]

Beyond that, I was interested to know when it first entered into the Christian history. Anyone know?

Albion, from what I remember (and it may be wrong), devotion to the Precious Blood has roots in Belgium in the 12th/13th (?) century. I remember that from somewhere in the recesses of my mind.. probably my trip to Belgium when I was in high school, not sure.

 

[Albion]

Albion, from what I remember (and it may be wrong), devotion to the Precious Blood has roots in Belgium in the 12th/13th (?) century. I remember that from somewhere in the recesses of my mind.. probably my trip to Belgium when I was in high school, not sure.

Thanks. That would be the general time period I was guessing at. Here's when we have the doctrine of Transubstantiation proclaimed, visions of hosts bleeding or turning into an infant during the elevation, and so on.

 

[AngCath]

Thanks. That would be the general time period I was guessing at. Here's when we have the doctrine of Transubstantiation proclaimed, visions of hosts bleeding or turning into an infant during the elevation, and so on.

yeah it seems to fit with what I would guess too... but if someone knows something different please share because I really just don't know too much about this.