July 1. Since the beginnings of Christianity, the mystery of love of the Blood of Christ has fascinated many people … (especially during) the month of July, when Christian piety turns in a special way to the Blood of Christ. … the Blood of Christ is the fount of salvation for the world. … God chose the sign of blood because no other sign can express so eloquently the supreme love of a life given for others. (Pope Francis)

 

July 2 God is the most loving Father of us all, and we are all brethren in Christ, we whom he redeemed by shedding His precious Blood. Hence, as often as we fail to return God’s love or to recognize His divine fatherhood with all due reverence, the bonds of brotherly love are unfortunately shattered and — as, alas, is so often evident, — discord, strife and enmity unhappily are the result, so much so as to undermine and destroy the very foundations of human society. (Ven. Pope Pius XII)

 

July 3. The Son Himself, made incarnate and human, is the High Priest, who enters with His sacrificial blood into the Holy of Holies of the trinitarian Divinity. The sacrifice of the Son presupposes the co-sacrificial love of the entire Holy Trinity. (Sergei Bulgakov)

 

July 4. Thou didst lay down Thy body and blood for all, O crucified Word: Thy body in order to renew me, Thy blood in order to wash me, and Thou didst surrender Thy spirit, O Christ, in order to bring me to the Father. (St. Andrew of Crete)

 

July 5  Who will not bless this Blood of infinite value? Who will not feel on fire with emotion toward Jesus who sheds this Blood? Who would I be if I had not been redeemed by this Divine Blood? (Francesco Albertini)

 

July 6. Devotion to the Blood of Jesus Christ is the foundation of hope in divine mercy. (St Gaspar del Bufalo)

 

July 7.  In view of the magnitude and potency of the price, and because it pertains to the universal condition of the human race, the blood of Christ is the redemption of the whole world. (St. Prosper of Aquitaine)

 

July 8. We must sacrifice ourselves to God, each day and in everything we do, accepting all that happens to us for the sake of the Word, imitating his passion by our sufferings, and honouring his blood by shedding our own. We must be ready to be crucified. (St. Gregory Nazianzen)

 

July 9. I understood the excess of love that Jesus brought to all humankind, that infinite love which had made him come to earth to redeem our souls with his blood, that he wanted to pour it all out. He made me understand well what he did for this soul of mine; for what he has done for everyone, and that he has done it for each one in particular; and I seemed to hear him say, "I've done all this for you." (St. Veronica Giuliani)

 

July 10. Let us always trust in the satisfaction and merits of Jesus Christ than in our own works and merits; for one little drop of the precious Blood of our Lord Jesus is of more value than all human merits. (Louis de Blois)

 

July 11.  The outpouring of Christ’s blood is the source of the Church’s life. (Pope Benedict XVI)

 

July 12. How can you exalt yourself more highly than by loving Jesus, Who loved you and washed you in His Blood, and Who gives Himself to those who desire Him, making them from men to become as gods? (St. John of Avila)

 

July 13. We, thirsting after riddance from all evil, come to Christ Himself, as to the beginning and door of freedom, and provisioned with the security and grace that come through His Precious Blood, we leave the carnal condition of this life, as it were a troublous and stormy sea, and, out of all the tumult of the world, we at length reach a more spiritual and purer state, as it were sojourning in the wilderness. (St. Cyril of Alexandria)

 

July 14. If God ordered the people of the old Israel to keep all of His commandments, how much more does He now order Christians, who are His chosen people, a beloved people that has been redeemed by His precious blood, to keep His commandments. (St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite)

 

July 15. John says in the Apocalypse: Blessed are they who wash their vestments in the Blood of the Lamb, to have power in the Tree of life, and to step in the city through the gates ; as if he said, that through contemplation one cannot step into the supernal Jerusalem, unless he enter through the Blood of the Lamb as through a gate. (St. Bonaventure)

 

July 16. Christ used the flesh and blood of Mary for his life on earth, the Word of love was uttered in her heartbeat. Christ used his own body to utter his love on earth; his perfectly real body, with bone and sinew and blood and tears; Christ uses our bodies to express his love on earth, our humanity. A Christian life is a sacramental life, it is not a life lived only in the mind, only by the soul... Our humanity is the substance of the sacramental life of Christ in us, like the wheat for the host, like the grape for the chalice. (Caryll Houselander)

 

July 17. Through the power of the Cross you can be present wherever there is pain, carried there by your compassionate charity, by that very charity which you draw from  the Divine Heart. That charity enables  you to spread everywhere the most  Precious Blood in order to  ease pain, save and redeem. (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross/Edith Stein)

 

July 18. The encounter between [our] sins and the blood of Christ is the only salvific encounter there is. (Pope Francis)

 

July 19. One trembling flame has endured the weight of worlds. One vacillating flame has endured the weight of time. One anxious flame has endured the weight of nights. Since the first time my grace flowed for the creation of the world. Since my grace has been flowing forever for the preservation of the world. Since that time that the blood of my son flowed for the salvation of the world. A flame impossible to reach, impossible to extinguish with the breath of death. (Charles Péguy)

 

July 20. This very participation itself, in so far as it is lived in the intimacy of the soul by the Church in her saints, and, to some degree, in the immense multitude of her members in the state of grace. In other words, it is the suffering and the love through which the Church applies all along the course of time the merits and the blood of Christ; and it is the contemplation of the Church, that contemplation which enables it to experience in some way the mysteries of God the Savior, and which takes place, through the grace of the Holy Spirit who is the soul of the Church, in human persons joined together as one in its communion. (Jacques and Raissa Maritain)

 

July 21. On every day before the Sabbath we carry out a remembrance of the Savior's passion through a fast that the Apostles first engaged in at the time when the bridegroom had been taken away from them; and every Lord's day we are made alive by the consecrated body of the same Savior, and are sealed in our souls by his precious blood. (Eusebius of Caesarea)

 

July 23. O Most sweet Lord Jesus, most flourishing, true, and faithful vine; remember the superabundant effusion of Thy precious blood which Thou didst pour forth so plenteously from all parts of Thy holy body, like a cluster of pressed grapes, when Thou Thyself alone didst tread the wine-press on the cross, and out of Thy pierced side didst give us water and wine to drink, not leaving so much as one drop, being then like a bundle of pure and precious myrrh. (St. Bridget of Sweden)

 

July 24. Christ after redeeming the world at the lavish cost of His own Blood, still must come into complete possession of the souls of men. Wherefore, that the redemption and salvation of each person and of future generations unto the end of time may be effectively accomplished, and be acceptable to God, it is necessary that men should individually come into vital contact with the Sacrifice of the Cross, so that the merits which flow from it should be imparted to them. In a certain sense it can be said that on Calvary Christ built a font of purification and salvation, which He filled with the Blood He shed; but if men do not bathe in it and there wash away the stains of their iniquities, they can never be purified and saved. (Ven. Pope Pius XII)

 

 

July 26. Behold the cup of thy terrifying blood, filled with light and life. Grant us understanding and enlightenment, that with the love and sanctity of faith we might approach it and that it might be unto us for the forgiveness of sins and not for condemnation. (St. Ephrem the Syrian)

 

June 27.  The law by its shadows prefigured from of old the mystery of Christ: and of this He is Himself the witness where He said to the Jews, "If you had believed Moses, you would have believed also Me: for he wrote concerning Me." For everywhere He is set forth, by means of shadows and types, both as slain for us, as the Lamb without blame and true; and as sanctifying us by His life-giving blood. (St. Cyril of Alexandria)

 

July 28. Is anyone’s blood fit to redeem him or her, seeing that it was Christ who shed his blood for the redemption of all? Is anyone’s blood comparable to Christ’s? Is anyone great enough to make atonement for himself over and above the atonement which Christ has offered in himself, Christ who alone has reconciled the world to God by his blood? What greater victim, what more excellent sacrifice, what better advocate can there be than he who became the propitiation for the sins of all, and gave his life for us as our redemption? (St. Ambrose of Milan)

 

July 30. At a certain point when it seemed [a particular] temptation would take on more force, it came to mind to invoke the holy Father of Jesus and I shouted: “Eternal Father, for the blood of Jesus free me. (St. Gemma Galgani)

 

July 31.  All of us are bound by a common obligation to rejoice in the good and profit of God’s image, which he redeemed with the precious Blood of his only begotten Son. (St. Ignatius Loyola)