June 1. As the blood of the passover saved those who were in Egypt, so also the blood of Christ will deliver from death those who have believed. (St . Justin Martyr)

 

June 2. O most merciful Lord, engrave you wounds upon my heart with your most Precious Blood, that I may read in them both your grief and your love. (St. Gertrude the Great)

 

June 3. God has set on Christ’s head the crowns of all those kings who form your kingdom, for yours is a kingdom of kings, resplendent in their regalia, each consecrated to you by the blood of Christ. (Rupert of Deutz)

 

June 4. My most beloved Lord, how good you are! Blood of Christ shed for me! It is mine, do not deny it to me because it is mine! O priests, strive to offer Mass everyday, inebriate yourselves with this blood. O Paradise, O Paradise, Blessed are those who live in your house, O Lord. (St. Francis Caracciolo)

 

June 5. My wish is that all of us, after these days of grace, will have the courage, yes, the courage, to walk in the presence of the Lord, with the Lord’s Cross; to build the Church on the Lord’s blood which was poured out on the Cross; and to profess the one glory: Christ crucified. And in this way, the Church will go forward. (Pope Francis)

 

June 6. At the time of his Passion and Cross, even before it had gone as far as the inhuman crucifixion and the shedding of his blood, how patiently he bore reviling and reproach, insult and mockery! (St. Cyprian of Carthage)

 

June 7. God grant you to realise the happiness of Whitsuntide, not only by hearsay, but by experiencing in your heart what was felt by Christ s faithful servants assembled in the Cenacle, when the Holy Ghost was poured into their souls. He so strengthened their weakness, enlightened their ignorance, and filled them with joy, that all could see that our Lord s Blood had not been shed in vain, but had gained them, through His prayers, a participation in the divine nature. (St. John of Avila)

 

June 8 (Pentecost). You repose, Holy Spirit, in creatures who dispose themselves so that, by receiving your gifts, they may in purity receive your own image in themselves. You repose in those who receive in themselves the effect of the blood of the Word, and make themselves worthy dwelling-places for you. (St. Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi)

 

June 9.  As for the anointing of Aaron my brethren, it was the vile blood of beasts, that was sprinkled in the horns of the altar. The anointing of truth is this; wherein the living and all-lifegiving Blood, is sprinkled inwardly in your bodies. is mingled in your understandings, is infused through your inmost chambers. (St. Ephrem the Syrian)

 

June 10. The Divine Blood is the Price of our Redemption, healing balm for our souls, tender consolation in our labors; . . . it is the source of all the good we possess. Let us be bold and let us place our confidence in the merits of the Precious Blood. (St. Gaspar del Bufalo)

 

June 11. The Letter to the Hebrews says that this “blood purifies the conscience.” It therefore, so to speak, opens to the Holy Spirit the door into the inmost being of men and women, namely into the sanctuary of human consciences. ... the Blood which “purifies the conscience from dead works.”  We know that the result of such a purification is the forgiveness of sins. Therefore, whoever rejects the Spirit and the Blood remains in “dead works,” in sin. (Pope St. John Paul II)

 

June 12. As king he grants to his people a kingdom; as High Priest he washes away their sins by the sacrifice of his own blood. He names them a ‘royal priesthood’ as a reminder to hope for an eternal kingdom, and to offer to God without ceasing the sacrifice of a sinless life. (St. Bede the Venerable)

 

June 13.  Cruelty should not justify itself under the pretext of justice, nor should carelessness and sloth hide under the cloak of mercy. They should be marked with the sign of the Lord’s Passion, so that whatever we do virtuously, we should be wholly marked with the blood of the Lord’s cross. (St. Anthony of Padua)

 

June 14. The church is the temple of God, a holy place, a house of prayer, the assembly of the people, the body of Christ. It is called the bride of Christ. It is cleansed by the water of His baptism, sprinkled by His blood, clothed in bridal garments, and sealed with the ointment of the Holy Spirit. (St. Germanus of Constantinople)

 

June 15 (Trinity Sunday) You are my Creator, eternal Trinity, and I am Your creature. You have made of me a new creation in the blood of Your Son, and I know that You are moved with love at the beauty of Your creation, for You have enlightened me. (St. Catherine of Siena)

 

June 16.  How long are you going to be deaf to His call? Or are you going to lose your soul,  which Jesus Christ bought at the price of His Precious Blood? (St. John Francis Regis)

 

June 17. We must approach this table with fear, for our mind must understand that reverence is due Him whose body we are coming to receive. For the mind ought to judge this way within itself, because it is the Lord whose blood we drink in this mystery.  (St. Ambrose of Milan)

 

June 18. A work of blood is our salvation; and we, as we would be saved, must draw near and gaze upon it in faith, and accept it as the way to heaven. We must take Him, who thus suffered, as our guide; we must embrace His sacred feet, and follow Him. No wonder, then, should we receive on ourselves some drops of the sacred agony which bedewed His garments; no wonder, should we be sprinkled with the sorrows which He bore in expiation of our sins! (St. John Henry Newman)

 

June 19. Abel's blood cried to God against his brother, whereas the blood of Christ speaks on behalf of us, whose brother Christ deigned to become, propitiating God for us and reconciling us to the Father on high — and this blood also speaks to us, clearly showing us the way of  love, because he, for love of us, emptied himself until he was like us. (St. Gregory Palmas)

 

June 20. Out of love the Lord took us to himself; because he loved us and it was God’s will, our Lord Jesus Christ gave his life’s blood for us – he gave his body for our body, his soul for our soul.  (St. Clement of Rome)

 

June 21. Precisely because of the mystery we celebrate, we must denounce situations contrary to human dignity, since Christ shed his blood for all, and at the same time affirm the inestimable value of each individual person. (Pope Benedict XVI)

 

June 22 (Corpus Christi). Christ shed his blood for our ransom and purification, so that we might be redeemed from our wretched state of bondage and cleansed from all sin. But to ensure that the memory of so great a gift would abide with us for ever, he left his body as food and his blood as drink for the faithful to consume in the form of bread and wine. (St. Thomas Aquinas)

 

June 23. Christ offered sacrifice here on earth, when he underwent his most bitter death. Then, clothed in the new garment of immortality, with his own blood he entered into the holy of holies, that is, into heaven. There he also displayed before the throne of the heavenly Father that blood of immeasurable price which he had poured out seven times on behalf of all people subject to sin. This sacrifice is so pleasing and acceptable to God that as soon as he has seen it he must immediately have pity on us and extend clemency to all who are truly repentant. (St. John Fisher)

 

June 24. This heresy [of the Cainites] declares that there are some sins which Christ cannot cleanse with His blood, and that the scars left by old transgressions on the body and the soul are sometimes so deep that they cannot be effaced by the remedy which He supplies. What else is this but to say that Christ has died in vain? He has indeed died in vain if there are any whom He cannot make alive. When John the Baptist points to Christ and says: “Behold the lamb of God which takes away the sins of the world” (John 1:29) he utters a falsehood if after all there are persons living whose sins Christ has not taken away. (St. Jerome)

 

June 25. Just as wine mingles in all the members of the one who drinks it and is transformed in him and he in wine, so does the one who drinks the Blood of Christ quench his thirst with the divine Spirit who commingles with his soul and the soul with Him. For through the Eucharist, those who commune with dignity reach the ability to partake of the Holy Spirit, and in this manner souls can live continually. (St. Maximus the Confessor)

 

June 26. In the consummation of His glory amidst the blessed redeemed by His Blood, Christ triumphs in the splendour of His eternal priesthood. (Bl. Columba Marmion)

 

June 27 (Sacred Heart). This blood, which flowed from its source in the secret recesses of his heart, gave the sacraments of the Church power to confer the life of grace, and for those who already live in Christ was a draught of living water welling up to eternal life. (St. Bonaventure)

 

June 28. Lord thus has redeemed us through His own blood, giving His soul for our souls, and His flesh for our flesh, and has also poured out the Spirit of the Father for the union and communion of God and man, imparting indeed God to men by means of the Spirit, and, on the other hand, attaching man to God by His own incarnation, and bestowing upon us at His coming immortality durably and truly, by means of communion with God. (St. Irenaeus of Lyons)

 

June 29. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia and Bithynia, who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient to Jesus Christ and sprinkled with his blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance. (1 Peter 1:1-2)

 

June 30.  Wine possesses a sparkle, a perfume, a vigour, that expands and clears the imagination. Under the form of wine Christ gives us his divine blood. It is no plain and sober draught. It was bought at a great price, at a divinely excessive price. (Romano Guardini)