The Most Precious Blood of Jesus

 Today is the last day of the month of July, which - following the old tradition of the Catholic Church - is dedicated to the devotion of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus, yet so few of us remember this or are aware of this fact. The Precious Blood which we worship is the Blood which the Savior 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.

One Of Twelve

The last day of the first month of the new year of 2011 creates an ambiance for a recapitulation of the first of twelve slices of the time given us by God as a gift and a challenge as well. Time to stop in our tracks and look back and around. Where am I? Where am I heading? What has happened in this period of time? what about my New Year resolutions? Am I underway to achieve them and fulfill them? Am I firmly on the path  of salvation with Christ and His Church? Who am I on this last day of the first out of twelve months of this year? Whom did I create out of myself in these thirty first days? Did I spread crumbs of goodness or bitterness? Did I proclaim love and compassion or envy and suffering of others? Today is the best day to sit down in the shadow of the tabernacle and ask myself these questions in the light of the Holy Spirit...