Our Morning Offering – 1 July– “The Feast and the Month of the Most Precious Blood” –
Glory Be to Jesus,
Who in Bitter Pains
By St Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1696-1787)
Most Zealous Doctor
Trans. Fr Eward Caswell C.Orat. (1814–1878)
Glory be to Jesus!
Who in bitter pains
Poured for me the Life-Blood,
From His Sacred veins.
Grace and life eternal
In that Blood I find,
Blessed be His compassion,
Infinitely kind!
Blessed through endless ages
Be the precious stream!
Which from endless torment
Doth the world redeem.
There the fainting spirit
Drinks of life her fill.
There, as in a fountain,
Bathes herself at will.
O the Blood of Christ!
It soothes the Father’s ire,
Opens the Gate of Heaven,
Quells eternal fire.
Abel’s blood for vengeance
Pleaded to the skies
But the Blood of Jesus,
For our pardon cries.
Oft as it is sprinkled
On our guilty hearts,
Satan in confusion,
Terror-struck, departs.
Oft as earth exulting
Wafts its praise on high,
Hell with terror trembles,
Heaven is filled with joy.
Lift ye, then, your voices,
Swell the mighty flood,
Louder still and louder,
Praise the Precious Blood!
Tune: “Bemerton (Caswall)” Friedrich Filitz 1847
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