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Jul 1 – Feast of the Precious Blood

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Episode Jul 1 – Feast of the Precious Blood

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It's the Feast of Feast of the Most Precious Blood, 1st Class, with the color of Red. In this episode: the meditation: "Meekness and Humility", today's news from the Church: "Letter from the Superior General in Response to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV", and today's thought from the Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Have feedback or questions about the DD or our other shows? podcast@sspx.org Sources Used Today:

• "Meekness and Humility" — From Trinity Sunday to the Assumption

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• "Letter from the Superior General in Response to His Holiness Pope Leo XIV" (FSSPX.news)

• https://fsspx.news/en/news/letter-superior-general-response-his-holiness-pope-leo-xiv-59914

• The Spiritual Life — Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (Angelus Press)

• https://angeluspress.org/products/spiritual-life-archbishop

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The Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ invites us to reflect on something we often hear in Scripture but may not stop to consider: the Blood of Christ is not simply a symbol. It is the price of our redemption.

From the very beginning of salvation history, blood represented life. In the Old Testament, the Israelites marked their doorposts with the blood of the Passover lamb so that death would pass over them. The sacrifices offered in the Temple pointed toward something greater still. Every drop looked ahead to the day when the true Lamb of God would offer Himself for the salvation of the world.

That day came on Calvary.

As Christ was scourged, crowned with thorns, nailed to the Cross, and finally pierced by the soldier's lance, He poured out His Precious Blood for every soul. The Church has always understood this as the complete gift of God's love. Saint Peter writes that we were redeemed "not with corruptible things, as gold or silver, but with the precious Blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled."

Devotion to the Precious Blood grew steadily throughout Christian history, especially during the Middle Ages, but it received new emphasis in the nineteenth century through the preaching of Saint Gaspar del Bufalo, founder of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. After years of political turmoil in Italy, Pope Pius IX returned to Rome in 1849 and, in thanksgiving for the restoration of peace, extended the Feast of the Precious Blood to the universal Church, assigning it to July 1.

Although the liturgical calendar was later revised after the Second Vatican Council and the separate feast was removed, devotion to the Precious Blood remains very much alive. Today, the mystery is celebrated within the Feast of Corpus Christi and the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart, reminding us that Christ gives us not only His Body but His Blood in the Holy Eucharist.

Throughout Europe, the Precious Blood inspired magnificent churches, relic chapels, and centuries of devotion. One of the most famous is the Basilica of the Holy Blood in Bruges, Belgium, where pilgrims have venerated a relic believed to contain the Precious Blood of Christ for nearly a thousand years. Across Catholic Europe, the month of July became traditionally dedicated to the Precious Blood, encouraging the faithful to meditate on the cost of their redemption.

The feast reminds us of something beautifully simple. Our salvation was not won cheaply. Every wound Christ suffered was an act of love, and every drop of His Precious Blood was poured out so that we might have eternal life.

Most Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, our redemption and our hope, save us.

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