Precious Blood Gems (October)
October 31, 2025
October 1. Was it not when I saw the Precious Blood flowing from the Wounds of Jesus that the thirst for souls first took possession of me? I wished to give them to drink of the Blood of the Immaculate Lamb that It might wash away their stains. (Saint Thérèse of Lisieux)
October 2. He who as God has a sleepless nature, slumbers on a pillow. And He who for this end came into the world, begs off from the cup of suffering. And in an agony He sweats blood, and is strengthened by an angel, who Himself strengthens those who believe in Him, and taught men to despise death by His work. (St. Hippolytus)
October 3. 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)
October 4. As true God and true man Christ came into the world, born of blessed Mary ever virgin. Through his cross, his blood and death, he has redeemed us from the captivity of sin. (St. Francis of Assisi)
October 5. O sweet, rose-red blood of Jesus, ennoble my blood and change it into Your own blood, and let this be done to me according to Your good pleasure. St. Faustina Mary Kowalska
October 6. Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son. (St. Augustine of Hippo)
October 7. Jesus came into the world as the Saviour and as the Son of God, and this not merely in the waters of the Jordan, but from the very moment of his Incarnation, when he took upon himself our human body and blood. (Bl. Idelfonso Schuster)
October 8. God the Father did not require the Blood of His Son, but, nevertheless, He accepted it when offered; it was not blood He thirsted for, but salvation, for salvation was in the blood. (St. Bernard of Clairvaux)
October 9. He died for us all upon the Cross, that, if it were possible to save us, we might be saved. And He calls upon us lovingly, begging us to accept the benefit of His meritorious and most Precious Blood. (St. John Henry Newman)
October 10. A single soul costs the blood of Jesus Christ. (St. Daniel Comboni)
October 11. The Blood of the new and eternal covenant especially deserves the worship of latria when it is elevated during the sacrifice of the Mass. But such worship achieves its normal fulfilment in sacramental communion with the same Blood, indissolubly united with Christ’s eucharistic Body…. Thus as often as they come worthily to this holy table they will receive more abundant fruits of the redemption and resurrection and eternal life won for all men by the Blood Christ shed “through the Holy Spirit.” (Pope St. John XXIII)
October 12. Since the merciless battle that Jesus fought was victorious, he was first crowned with thorns in order to banish every curse from the earth, eradicating by his sacred head the thorns born of sin. Then, having exhausted the Dragon's bitter gall, in exchange he completely opened for us the fountains of sweetness that spring from him . . . He opened his own side whence flowed the sacred blood and water, signs of the spiritual marriage, of adoption and the mystical new birth. (Anonymous Easter Homily inspired by St. Hippolytus of Rome)
October 13. On the altar we become relatives of Christ. Who is a relative? It is a person in whom the same blood flows. That is why we are relatives of God, kindred with God, because the Son of God’s blood flows in us. Union with God transforms us into him, makes us one with him. (Bl. Honoratus Koźmiński)
October 14. The small number of living souls to whom the Blood of Christ is still of some worth finds itself confronting an inconceivable multitude, up until our times beyond imagining. It is “the infinite company of people who stand before the throne, in the presence of the Lamb, clothed in white robes and bearing palms in their hands.” (Léon Bloy)
October 15. “Daughter, I want my blood to be beneficial to you, and don’t be afraid that My mercy will fail you." (St. Teresa of Avila)
October 16. I have the intention of adoring you by this visit [to the Blessed Sacrament] wherever you are present in the sacred Host, and I offer you your precious blood for poor sinners; also, I desire to receive you spiritually as many times as there are sanctuaries on earth in which you dwell. (St. Gerard Majella)
October 17. I desire the bread of God, the heavenly bread, the bread life, which is the flesh of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who became afterwards the seed of David and Abraham; and I desire the drink of God, namely His blood, which is incorruptible love and eternal life. (St. Ignatius of Antioch)
October 18. I have redeemed you with my own blood; for your sake I have fasted, watched, prayed, undergone tedious journeys, sweat blood, and endured many more miseries in the course of my life; for the love of you, I have suffered persecutions, injuries, blasphemies, and the very Cross itself….How I have drawn your soul. How I have redeemed you with the ransom of my precious blood. (St. Peter of Alcantara)
October 19. My heart melts when I think of the souls I see leaving this world, still red with the blood of Jesus Christ. Ah! what gentle looks they cast upon the Divinity! What thoughts and what love have they for those, who, near or far, have extended to them a hand to place them in the bosom of glory. (St. John de Brebeuf)
October 20. When you are alone in your room, take your crucifix, kiss its five wounds reverently, tell it to preach to you a little sermon, and then listen to the words of eternal life that it speaks to your heart; listen to the pleading of the thorns, the nails, the precious Blood. Oh, what an eloquent sermon! (St. Paul of the Cross)
October 21. The world can still set itself right and always will be able to, because the voice and blood of Christ cry out for pity and mercy. (St. Gaspar del Bufalo)
October 22. Christ's Blood is the precious source of salvation for the world precisely because it belongs to the Word who became flesh for our salvation. (Pope St. John Paul II)
October 23. We, the portion and inheritance of Jesus Christ, washed and purified in His Blood, have become the living temples of the Holy Ghost; that is, living members and the abode of the Divine Paraclete. (St. Frances Xavier Cabrini)
October 24. I have seen this era as one in which selfishness has made men forget their most sacred duties to their neighbors and brothers--for all of us are images of God, children of God, redeemed by the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, and destined for heaven. (St. Anthony Mary Claret)
October 25. It was the Lord’s will that his gifts should remain with us, and that we who have been redeemed by his precious blood should constantly be sanctified according to the pattern of his own passion. And so he commanded those faithful disciples of his whom he made the first priests of his Church to enact these mysteries of eternal life continuously. (St. Gaudentius of Brescia)
October 26. A great deposit was that, by which Our Lord lodged in the hands of the paternal Justice, all His precious blood, of which the least drop is far more valuable than all the worlds we could ever imagine. (St. Francis de Sales)
October 27. There is not a single soul in whom Christ is not interested. Each soul has cost him the price of his Blood. (St. Josemaria Escriva)
October 28. Why did you not spare yourself altogether, when it would have been enough indeed, so excellent and of such exceeding worth was your Passion, to have shed one little drop of your precious Blood? Why did you cast cast yourself so utterly away, and expose yourself, and suffer yourself in so humble a way to be well nigh brought down to nothing? O loving Jesus, You have wished this to show forth your out-flowing and utterly measureless love for us, with which, from the beginning, you have loved us. (Johnnes Tauler)
October 29. Do you want it always to cost me the blood of my humanity while you do not even shed a tear? (Blaise Pascal)
October 30. We owe him blood for blood; and moreover our blood in return for his blood which he shed for us, were a very unequal exchange. But knowest thou what men often do? We accept from a bad debtor oats instead of wheat; and our Lord accepteth from us our tears instead of his blood, and is well satisfied. (Ancren Rule)
October 31. Another exercise is very valuable for the imitation of Christ—for love of him, taking the sweet for the bitter and the bitter for sweet. So, I put myself in spirit before our crucified Lord, looking at him full of sorrow, shedding his blood and bearing great bodily hardships for me. (St. Alphonsus Rodriguez)