May 1  It is by the Blood of Jesus that the soul becomes ever more and more radiant. It is the secret source of all mystical transformations of the soul into the likeness of its Crucified Spouse. (Frederick Faber)

 

May 2. Place in thy heart one drop of the Precious Blood of Jesus and fear nothing. (Bl. Pope Pius IX)

 

May 3. Christians who have been baptized in the Blood ofChrist are called and summoned to the Eternal Joy of God. (Bl. John Ruysbroeck)

 

May 4. Why are you frightened? Don’t be surprised if desolation moments are always longer and more painful, God is there and allows it for the good of your soul…Continue to face the Enemy and defeat him with the Divine Blood! (Bl. Giovanni Merlini)

 

May 5. I will confidently hide myself in the Wounds of my Lord Jesus Christ, and I will wash away the stains of all my iniquities in his precious Blood, and will evermore rejoice with holy desire in him my Creator and Redeemer. (Louis de Blois)

 

May 6. When some humans boast of noble blood, I would dare to assert that there is only one true nobility of blood, and that is the nobility of the blood of the Son of God Jesus Christ, whose participants can become all people of good will. And to that nobility, to the blood of the Son of God, we give recognition today, our praise! (Bl. Alojzije Stepinac)

 

May 7. Our Saviour counted all your sorrows, all your sufferings, and purchased, at the price of His blood, the patience and the love that were necessary for you, in order to worthily refer your pains to His glory and your own salvation. (St. Francis de Sales)

 

May 8. The precious blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, as truly as it is most precious, so truly is it most plentiful. Behold and see the power of this precious plenty of his precious blood.... The precious plenty of his precious blood overflows all the earth, and it is ready to wash from their sins all creatures who are, have been and will be of good will. (Julian of Norwich)

 

 

May 10. It is our blessed fate to have fallen into the hands of such a Lord, and to know Him, and to love Him, although, alas! with many imperfections. He cleanses us from our faults with His Blood; He gives us His Sacraments. His Fatherly love grants an easy pardon to our sins, and a generous reward for our services. He leads us through the Red Sea to the Promised Land, setting our sins as far apart from us as the East is from the West. He drowns them in His Precious Blood, so that, although we still see them, they are dead, and only incite us to praise our Lord, Who hath thrown the horse and the rider into the sea. (Exod. 15)  (St. John of Avila)

 

May 11 By Jesus’ death the lost sheep was brought back to the pastures of life. For the ancient persecutor saw that because of the blood of the innocent Lamb, which the Lamb had poured out in remission of the sins of humanity, he must lose that sheep, only then first did he recognize who that Lamb was. (St. Hildegard of Bingen)

 

May 12. May the Virgin Mary, who at the foot of the Cross together with the Apostle John received the testament of Jesus’ Blood, help us to rediscover the inestimable richness of this grace and to feel deep and everlasting gratitude for it. (Pope Benedict XVI)

 

May 13. The work of our redemption began at the moment when the Word descended from Heaven in order to assume a human body in the womb of Mary. From that moment, and for the next nine months, the Blood of Christ was the Blood of Mary, taken from Her Immaculate Heart; the Heart of Christ was beating in unison with the Heart of Mary.  (Ven. Lúcia de Jesus Rosa dos Santos)

 

May 14. Because of you, Jesus Christ, because of the blood you shed for us, we stand before God’s face. It is your sacrifice, your immolation, that wins our every moment of glory and happiness. To you, the Lamb that was slain, be all honour and praise and thanksgiving!’ (Bl. Columba Marmion)

 

May 15. We praise him because Christ shed this very blood so that we might not remain in error; and not only did he shed his blood, but he gave all of us a share of it. (St. John Chrysostom)

 

May 16. I beg of you to cast one glance upon Your sufferings and see how great is the worth of that Precious Blood that flows from your veins. My God, at this hour close Your eyes to my want of merit and open them to Your infinite merits. (St. Gemma Galgani)

 

May 17.  On account of the Love he bore us, Jesus Christ our Lord gave His blood for us by the will of God; His flesh for our flesh, and His soul for our souls. (St. Clement of Rome)

 

May 18. Since the beginnings of Christianity, the mystery of the Blood of Christ has fascinated many people…. the Blood of Christ is the source of salvation for the world. God chose the sign of blood, because no other sign is so eloquent to express the supreme love of life given for others. (Pope Francis)

 

May 19. Let us accept anything for the Word’s sake. By sufferings let us imitate His Passion: by our blood let us reverence His Blood: let us gladly mount upon the Cross. Sweet are the nails, though they be very painful. For to suffer with Christ and for Christ is better than a life of ease with others. (St. Gregory Nazianzen)

 

May 20. How can my soul become purified? In the fire of Your charity, O eternal God, by bathing itself in the Blood of Your only-begotten Son. (St. Catherine of Siena)

 

May 21. Not only is the blood of the same human family common to us but the blood of our Redeemer in which we share as recipients of the same grace and the same sacraments. (St. Eugene de Mazenod)

 

May 22. Unlimited is the effectiveness of the God-Man’s Blood — just as unlimited as the love that impelled him to pour it out for us, first at his circumcision eight days after birth, and more profusely later on in his agony in the garden, in his scourging and crowning with thorns, in his climb to Calvary and crucifixion, and finally from out that great wide wound in his side which symbolizes the divine Blood cascading down into all the Church’s sacraments. Such surpassing love suggests, nay demands, that everyone reborn in the torrents of that Blood adore it with grateful love. (Pope St. john XXIII)

 

May 23. Name Jesus often, and invoke the aid of his passion, and implore him by his sufferings, and by his precious blood, and by his death on the cross. Fly into his wounds; creep into them with thy thought. They are all open (Ancren Rule)

 

May 24. As Mary bore that Precious Blood within herself of old, so do you bear it now. (Frederick Faber)

 

May 25. We have become ‘God’s own people’ through the blood of our Redeemer; for in time gone by the people of Israel was redeemed from Egypt by the blood of the lamb. (St. Bede the Venerable)

 

May 26. The sweet Christ, the Word Incarnate, has given Himself to us to suffer all that was necessary for us, even to the cruel and shameful death of the cross, and afterwards left Himself in the Sacrament, and first He left heaven, humbling Himself to be come man for us; and He was stripped on the cross; and He shed His blood, and His soul was separated from His body; and all created things are generous, and show the goodness of the Creator; the sun sheds light, the fire heat, every tree extends its arms, which are its boughs, and yields us the fruit which it produces, and the water and the air, and all nature shows forth the liberality of the Creator. (St. Philip Neri)

 

May 27. The Blood of Jesus is our only hope and our only Good—this Blood, shed with so much pain and so much love for our eternal salvation. Let our hearts be filled with courage, fearing nothing, not even death, so that at every moment the Precious Blood be glorified, loved and blessed by all!  (St. Maria de  Mattias)

 

May 28. There is no other human community in the world that would become one in its action as those who lean over the altar and repeat: This is my Body; this is my Blood. The Church is right to not say: This is the Body of Christ, this is the Blood of Christ; only by identifying us with You, make us say in Your Name: This is my Body, this is my Blood (Bl. Stefan Wyszyński)

 

May 29 (Ascension Thursday). Christ has broken open our prison, and won the victory, and by His death slain our death; and He has redeemed us by His blood, and made us free through His living waters of baptism, and enriched us with His sacraments and with His gifts: that we might go out (as He says) with all the virtues, to meet Him in the house of glory and to enjoy Him without end in eternity. (Bl. John Ruysbroeck)

 

May 30.  We should anoint the lintel of our mind with the blood of the Lamb who was sacrificed for us, and so ward off our destroyer. We should do this not only once a year, but every week, continually.  (St. Eusebius of Caesarea)

 

May 31. The Dispenser of the most precious Blood of Jesus, which has infinite value and that washes away such sins, is God’s mercy embodied in the Immaculate. (St. Maximilian Kolbe)