Precious Blood Gems (September)
September 30, 2025
September 1. Oh Jesus, gentlest love! You have said, “Do you want an incentive to work for my glory and other people’s salvation? Do you want the strength to endure every trial with patience? Then look at me, the Lamb slain on the cross for you, my blood totally drained from head to foot. (St. Catherine of Siena)
September 2. The blood of the New Testament, poured out for the remission of our sins, bears witness to this truth…. It is he who first loved us by giving up his only Son for the love of us. (Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet)
September 3. Every sinner, as he drinks the blood that is the price of his redemption, offers praise and thanksgiving, and to the best of his power makes that blood known to all around him. Earth has not hidden away his blood, for holy Church has preached in every corner of the world the mystery of its redemption. (Pope St. Gregory the Great)
September 4. When Christ poured out His precious blood upon the Cross, it was not a man's blood, though it belonged to His manhood, but blood full of power and virtue, instinct with life and grace, as issuing most mysteriously from Him who was the Creator of the world. (St. John Henry Newman)
September 5. Meditate on the mystery of His Passion and Death, and find consolation in the reality that He poured out every drop of blood for love of you. Only one drop would have sufficed to save us, but He chose to give until it hurts. When we do the same, we are loving as Jesus loved us. (St. Teresa of Kolkata)
September 6. The door to redemption, once it had been opened, was never again to be shut; the spring of living water and blood, once uncovered, was to flow for all generations and all ages. (Aemiliana Löhr)
September 7. "I am the vine, you are the branches." You have blossomed forth from me. Are you then surprised if a drop of my Heart’s blood trickles into your every thought and deed? (Hans Urs von Balthasar)
September 8. What is Calvary? It is the place stained with the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ. But Mary’s Heart was bathed with It through love and compassion and the Precious Blood of her beloved Son penetrated and impregnated His Mother far more than it soaked the soil of Calvary. (St. John Eudes)
September 9. Sometimes a master sins against his slave—because even though one's a master, the other a slave, still they are both the slaves of a third party, because both have been bought by the blood of Christ. (St. Augustine of Hippo)
September 10. As I recall by whose blood I have been redeemed, I enter a safe harbor. (St, Augustine of Hippo)
September 11. Sweet Jesus, I implore you, wash my soul with that blood and anoint and decorate my soul and my consciousness with that precious blood, and send me the grace, through your great compassion, to judge and criticize myself with full comprehension, so that my soul may be saved. (Richard Rolle)
September 12. Jesus chose his Mother from all eternity. He has conferred on her, as well as the divine Motherhood, all the privileges which we reverence in her and which He purchased with His Blood. (Bl. Columba Marmion)
September 13. When you see the Lord sacrificed, and laid upon the altar, and the priest standing and praying over the victim, and all the worshippers empurpled with that precious blood, can you then think that you are still among men, and standing upon the earth? Are you not, on the contrary, straightway translated to Heaven. (St. John Chrysostom)
September 14. Never did our Lord Jesus Christ display such great love as when He suffered the torture of the Cross when He gave His life for us, and washed our sins with His precious Blood. Therefore with the cords of Love, He drew us all to Himself upon the Cross that those who feel the drawing of His death and martyrdom might live with Him in everlasting felicity. (Meister Eckhart)
September 15. Who may rightly sum up the sorrow of the mother when she saw the most precious body of her son, which she knew to be most holy and most clean of all stain, stretched out on the wood of the cross, his head that struck awe among the angels crowned with thorns, his hands and feet transfixed by nails, his side split open by a soldier's lance, and streams of blood running from every part of his body?" (Stephen of Sawley)
September 16. When the blood of the Lord and the cup of salvation have been drunk, the memory of the old man is laid aside, and there arises an oblivion of the former worldly conversation, and the sorrowful and sad breast which before was oppressed by tormenting sins is eased by the joy of the divine mercy; because that only is able to rejoice him who drinks in the Church, which, when it is drunk, retains the Lord’s truth. (St. Cyprian of Carthage)
September 17. All therefore, who desire to live well and to die well, must be careful to preserve to the very best of their power the white garment. But if it should contract some stains, we must wash it often in the blood of the Lamb; and this is done by true contrition and penitential tears. (St. Robert Bellarmine)
September 18. Adam’s transgression was miraculously remade into salvation by the blood of the Son of God; not earlier, since no other but the Only-Begotten of God, sent into the world by the Father, could cancel that transgression and permit entry into Heaven. Therefore, as you hear in this vision, unless the Son of God had shed His blood for human salvation, that transgression would have weighed Man down so much that he could not have attained to the joy of the citizens of Heaven. (St. Hildegard of Bingen)
September 19. There are hearts so hard that, even if Jesus Himself were to come down from heaven to preach to them and they were to see Him covered with wounds and bathed in His blood, they would still not be converted. O my God, let us not be one of them, but give us the grace to open our ears to the voice of all the sacred wounds of Thy body and Thy heart, which are so many mouths through which Thou dost call us unceasingly. (St. John Eudes)
September 20. Why the Cross? Because Jesus takes upon himself the evil, the filth, the sin of the world, including the sin of all of us, and he cleanses it, he cleanses it with his blood, with the mercy and the love of God. Let us look around: how many wounds are inflicted upon humanity by evil! (Pope Francis)
September 21. To the extent that we can infer, salvation depends, in its last concrete application, upon the action of the apostle. It depends upon us then whether the Blood of Christ will be beneficial for those for whom it was shed. (St. Alberto Hurtado Cruchaga)
September 22. O good Jesus! O merciful Jesus! By your blood we buy you for ourselves; by your blood you have purchased us for the Father. O infinite generosity of God, who gave himself up to death that he might give himself unto life? Your blood, good Jesus, is the cost. It is your payment and ours: by it you have purchased us for the Father; by it we purchase you for ourselves. (St. Thomas of Villanova)
September 23. O Divine Blood, thou wellest eternally from the Heart of Jesus, thou flowest from all his pores to wash this poor ungrateful earth. Grant that I may gather this most precious Blood, above all these first drops. I wish to keep thee in the chalice of my heart. Thou art the irrefutable proof of the love which alone made thee flow. May I be purified in thee, O most precious Blood! I would purify all souls sullied by sin. I would offer thee to the Heavenly Father. 'This is the Blood of his beloved Son who came down to earth to purify it. This is the Blood of his Son who ascends to his throne to reconcile outraged Justice. The satisfaction is in truth superabundant! (St. Pio of Pietrelcina)
September 24. I stop here at the foot of the cross. I come close to it; I embrace it. I kiss it, especially where it is drenched most liberally with the blood of the Crucified. (St. Vincent Mary Strambi)
September 25. You should realise that your neighbours are very dear to Christ, that they are created in His image and that He gave His blood for them. (St. John of Avila)
September 26. I had an overall view of the whole Catholic world and a multitude of altars upon which at one and the same time, the adorable Victim was being immolated. The blood of the Lamb without stain was flowing abundantly over every one of these altars, which seemed to be surrounded by a light cloud of smoke ascending toward heaven. My soul was seized and penetrated with a feeling of love and gratitude on beholding this most abundant satisfaction that Our Lord was offering for us. (St. Thérèse Couderc)
September 27. Be united together and God will bless you; but may this be by the charity of Jesus Christ, because all other union which is not consolidated by the blood of this Divine Savior cannot subsist. (St. Vincent de Paul)
September 28. It is through the atoning sacrifice of Christ’s blood that we receive forgiveness of our past offences in the merciful forbearance of God; so is his justice made manifest. (Origen of Alexandria)
September 29. We are not permitted to doubt that where the mysteries of the Lord’s body and blood are being enacted, a gathering of the citizens from on high is present—those [angels] who were keeping such careful watch at the tomb where Christ’s venerable body had been placed and from which he had departed by rising. (St. Bede the Venerable)
September 30. The only fitting return that we can make to Him is to give blood for blood; and, as we are redeemed by the blood of Christ, gladly to lay down our lives for our Redeemer. What saint has ever won his crown without first contending for it? (St. Jerome)