July is traditionally dedicated to veneration of the Most Precious Blood of the Lord. From the earliest days of the Church, Christians have venerated Our Saviour’s Blood.
“Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled” (1 Peter 1:18-19). The First Letter of Clement (AD 80-100) offered: “Let us fix our gaze on the Blood of Christ and realise how truly precious it is, seeing that it was poured out for our salvation and brought the grace of conversion to the whole world.”
