The Blood of Jesus Christ and sin

Jesus, with great love and bitter pain, has purified our souls from sin, yet we continue to offend him. "Sinners, says St. Paul, nail Jesus again to the cross". They prolong his Passion and draw new Blood from his veins. The sinner is a sacrilegious who, not only kills his own soul, but renders in itself the Redemption wrought by the Blood of Christ. From this we must understand all the malice of mortal sin. Let us listen to St. Augustine: "Every serious sin separates us from Christ, truncates love for him and repudiates the price paid by him, that is, his blood." And which of us is sinless? Who knows how many times we too have rebelled against God, we have turned away from him to offer our hearts to creatures! Let us now look at Jesus Crucified: He is the one who erases the sins of the world! Let's go back to his Heart that beats with infinite love for sinners, let's bathe in his Blood, because it is the only medicine that can heal our soul.

EXAMPLE: San Gaspare del Bufalo was preaching a Mission and was told that a great sinner, already on his deathbed, rejected the sacraments. Soon the Saint went to his bedside and, with the crucifix in his hands, spoke to him of the Blood that Jesus had also shed for him. His word was so heated that every soul, although obstinate, would be moved. But the dying man did not, he remained indifferent. Then S. Gaspar stripped his shoulders and, kneeling by the bed, began to discipline himself in blood. Not even that was enough to move that obstinate. The Saint was not discouraged and said to him: «Brother, I do not want you to harm yourself; I will not stop until I have saved your soul "; and to the blows of the scourges he joined the prayer to Jesus crucified. Then the dying man touched by Grace burst into tears, confessed and died in his arms. The saints, following the example of Jesus, are also willing to give their lives to save a soul. We, on the other hand, with our scandals, perhaps have been the cause of their perdition. Let us try to repair by good example and pray for the conversion of sinners.

PURPOSE: There is nothing dearer to Jesus than the pain of our sins. Let's cry and don't go back to offending him. It would be like taking back from the hands of the Lord those tears that we have already given him.

JACULATORY: O Precious Blood of Jesus, have mercy on me and purify my soul from sin.