1 July – Most Precious Blood and St. Aaron and St. Junipero Serra

Today is the Feast of the Most Precious Blood… in the older, traditional calendar of the Roman Rite.  Thus we inaugurate the month of July, during which in a special way, fire up our devotion to the Most Precious Blood of the Lord.

A thought for you:

Though we all may be different in height or sex or shape of eye and color of skin, we all bleed the same red Our Savior bled for our sins. Our unifying human blood, divinely infused, courses ruddy within His Sacred Heart, His risen veins.  What a powerful proof our the unity of our entire race.

Every even tiny drop is worth the salvation of the souls of everyone who has ever lived.   While many have and will accept the gift Christ won by the pouring out of His Precious Blood, not all will.

Here is the Collect:

Omnípotens sempitérne Deus, qui unigénitum Fílium tuum mundi Redemptórem constituísti, ac eius Sánguine placári voluísti: concéde, quaesumus, salútis nostræ prétium sollémni cultu ita venerári, atque a præséntis vitæ malis eius virtúte deféndi in terris; ut fructu perpétuo lætémur in coelis.

Here is someone else’s translation:

Almighty, eternal God, Who made Your only-begotten Son the Redeemer of the world, and willed to be reconciled by His Blood, grant us, we beseech You, so to worship in this sacred rite the price of our salvation, and to be so protected by its power against the evils of the present life on earth, that we may enjoy its everlasting fruit in heaven.

And… by the way… today is also the feast of St. Aaron, brother of Moses.

Some people may not realize that many great figures of the Old Testament are considered saints and are listed in the Roman Martyrology.

Here is his entry in the 2005 Martyrologium Romanum:

1. Commemoratio sancti Aaron, de tribu Levi, qui a Moyse fratre oleo sacro unctus est sacerdos Veteris Testamenti et in monte Hor depositus.

Who wants to translate this for the readers?

Also, today is the, in the Novus Ordo calendar, the feast of St. Junipero Michael Serra Ferrer, whose memory is being attacked, sacrilegiously, these days. I was so pleased to see that Archbp. Cordileone read the Title XI, Chapter 3 exorcism at Golden State Park where the demoniac influenced mob tore his statue down.

Here is his Collect (Notitiae 269 Vo. 24 (1988) p. 928:

Deus, cuius ineffabili misericordia plurimas Americae gentes Ecclesiae tuae per Sanctum Iuniperum Serra, aggregare dignatus es; da nobis, eius intercessione, ita corda nostra tibi in caritate coniungere ut imaginem Unigeniti Filii tui coram hominibus semper et ubique portare valeamus. Qui tecum vivit et regnat.

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5 Comments

  1. Commemoratio sancti Aaron, de tribu Levi, qui a Moyse fratre oleo sacro unctus est sacerdos Veteris Testamenti et in monte Hor depositus.

    Commemoration of St. Aaron, from the tribe of Levi, who was anointed with oil by Moses, his brother, as a priest of the Old Testament, and was laid to rest on Mount Hor.

  2. Chris Garton-Zavesky says:

    ” While many have and will accept the gift Christ won by the pouring out of His Precious Blood, not all will.”

    It appears to me straightforwardly obvious that “not all will”, but I’m having trouble demonstrating this to other people, who keep saying things like this: “Sure, Christ divided the sheep and the goats, but that doesn’t mean there are, actually, any goats”. or “I’m not saying that Hell IS empty of human souls, only that we have a reasonable hope that it is”.

    Can you help?

  3. Ah, I see I skipped translating the “sacro”! Holy oil!

  4. JakeMC says:

    Just thought I’d point out to readers that this Collect is also said at the end of the Litany of the Precious Blood.

  5. Priam1184 says:

    @Chris Garton-Zavesky In Matthew ch. 25 Our Lord says that “And these WILL go into everlasting punishment…” not they ‘might’ go or ‘it is a remote theoretical possibility that some people like Hitler and Stalin might possibly go to that place but even for them it is unlikely’. He doesn’t say any of that. He says WILL go. It is not Mercy to refuse to tell someone the truth.

    The Commemoration of holy Aaron from the tribe of Levi who was a priest of the Old Covenant anointed with sacred oil by his brother Moses and lad to rest on Mount Hor.

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