MONTH OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF JESUS - SEVENTH DAY

WORTHY IS THE LAMB WHO WAS SLAIN

Jesus Christ, the only begotten of the Father, stands eternally before the throne of God as the lamb that was slain from the beginning as the lamb that shall take away the sins of the world. As soon as this divine decree to redeem the world with the Blood of Christ was made known to the angels, the Precious Blood had to become to them an object of veneration. The lamb that was slain is worthy to receive power and divinity. Lucifer and his followers who in their pride refused obedience and worship, were cast into hell. 

Michael and his angels fought with the dragon and they overcame him by the blood of the lamb.

St. Paul writes: God chose us in him before the foundation of the world according to the eternal purpose which he made, in Christ Jesus our Lord he, too, reminds us of this eternal decree of the Precious Blood as the price of our redemption, for he says distinctly: Without shedding of blood there is no remission. Hence, mankind participated from its creation, in some measure, in this 

pre-ordained world-redemption of the Cross.

     God accepted with complacency the sacrifice of Noe after the Deluge, but forbade him the use of blood. Flesh with blood you shall not eat. Moses received the same command and God gave him the reason for this prohibition of blood. I have given it to you, that you may make atonement with it upon the altar for your souls, and the blood may be for an expiation of the sour. But why was blood held so sacred? How could the blood of animals offered on the altar become so pleasing to God? St. John Chrysostom answers: God caused it to be held sacred and considered Himself honored by it, not simply because it was blood, but because it represented in type the Blood of Jesus Christ. What else did God want to signify to the Patriarch Jacob by the words, He shall wash his robes in wine, and his garment in the blood of the grapes  than that Jesus in His love would shed His Blood in order to cleanse His Church which He has chosen as the bride of His heart. With what enthusiasm the Prophets seem to point to the wells of salvation opened by our Saviour s five wounds: You shall draw waters with joy out of the Savior’s fountains. Zachary saw this sacred spring well up in the true house of David, in the Church, where it flows from the altar in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, when he wrote: 

In that day there shall be a fountain open to the house of David, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Again it was the blood of the paschal lamb, which was a type of the true Lamb of God that was chosen by God expressly as a pledge of His special protection to the Israelites in Egypt. 

And the blood shall be unto you for a sign in the houses where you shall be; and I shall see the blood, and shall pass over you: and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you. Moses sealed the Old Covenant with sacrificial blood. He took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he said: This is the blood of the covenant which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words. And all our fathers drank the same spiritual drink; (and they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ) writes St. Paul. Regarding this text St. Thomas observes, in that water they saw the Blood of Christ typified which He shed in His Passion, and by virtue of their faith they had a spiritual foretaste of it. If, then, we are struck by the prominence assigned by the Holy Ghost to the Blood of Jesus before It was really shed, by making it the subject of the types of the ancient law and by letting it appear in the visions of the Prophets, what honor and glory should it receive by us in the New Law, now that it has been shed by our Savior in His bitter Passion and continues to flow mystically in His Church with so prodigal a love? This Precious Blood, foreshadowed in the Old Law, taken from the Immaculate Virgin Mary, the life and warmth and love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus from which it flowed as the last expression of His love, shed at seven different times with inexpressible love for us, flowing daily through the channels of the seven sacraments, is the chosen means of our redemption and sanctification. 

One drop of this Blood is of infinitely greater value than all the streams of blood that flowed for hundreds of years from the altars of the tabernacles and synagogues.

Litany of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus

Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us.

Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us.

God the Father of Heaven, Have mercy on us.

God the Son, Redeemer of the world, Have mercy on us.

God the Holy Ghost, Have mercy on us.

Holy Trinity, One God, Have mercy on us.

Blood of Christ, only-begotten Son of the Eternal Father, Save us.

Blood of Christ, Incarnate Word of God, Save us.

Blood of Christ, of the New and Eternal Testament, Save us.

Blood of Christ, falling upon the earth in the Agony, Save us.

Blood of Christ, shed profusely in the Scourging, Save us.

Blood of Christ, flowing forth in the Crowning with Thorns, Save us.

Blood of Christ, poured out on the Cross, Save us.

Blood of Christ, Price of our salvation, Save us.

Blood of Christ, without which there is no forgiveness, Save us.

Blood of Christ, Eucharistic drink and refreshment of souls, Save us.

Blood of Christ, river of mercy, Save us.

Blood of Christ, Victor over demons, Save us.

Blood of Christ, Courage of martyrs, Save us.

Blood of Christ, Strength of confessors, Save us.

Blood of Christ, bringing forth virgins, Save us.

Blood of Christ, Help of those in peril, Save us.

Blood of Christ, Relief of the burdened, Save us.

Blood of Christ, Solace in sorrow, Save us.

Blood of Christ, Hope of the penitent, Save us.

Blood of Christ, Consolation of the dying, Save us.

Blood of Christ, Peace and Tenderness of hearts, Save us.

Blood of Christ, Pledge of Eternal Life, Save us.

Blood of Christ, freeing souls from Purgatory, Save us.

Blood of Christ, most worthy of all glory and honor, Save us.

Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, Spare us, O,Lord.

Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, Graciously hear us, O Lord.

Lamb of God, Who takest away the sins of the world, Have mercy on us.

Thou hast redeemed us, O Lord, in Thy Blood. And made us, for our God, a kingdom.

Let us pray:

Almighty and eternal God, Thou hast appointed Thine only-begotten Son the Redeemer of the world and willed to be appeased by his blood. Grant, we beg of Thee, that we may worthily adore this price of our salvation and through its power be safeguarded from the evils of the present life so that we may rejoice in its fruits forever in heaven. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.