Prayer to the Most Precious Blood
The New Raccolta, 1903, no. 2Source and notes
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| Printed in | THE NEW RACCOLTA, OR, COLLECTION OF PRAYERS AND GOOD WORKS. TO WHICH THE SOVEREIGN PONTIFFS HAVE ATTACHED HOLY INDULGENCES. TO WHICH IS ADDED AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING PRAYERS FOR MASS, AND VESPERS FOR SUNDAYS. |
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| Imprint | PHILADELPHIA, PETER F. CUNNINGHAM & SON, 1903 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | pp. 189–190 |
| Scan | leaf 198, leaf 199 of the Internet Archive copy |
| Approval | FROM THE THIRD ITALIAN EDITION AUTHORIZED AND APPROVED BY THE SACRED CONGREGATION OF HOLY INDULGENCES. Imprimatur: ✠ JACOBUS, CARD. GIBBONS, ARCHIEP. BALTIMORENSIS. BALTIMORE, July 20, 1887. Imprimatur: ✠ PATRICK JOHN, ARCHBISHOP OF PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 8, 1900. Moreover, Our Holy Father, Leo XIII., by virtue of his apostolic authority, has approved this Collection issued from the press of the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda, and, therefore, it must be regarded by all as the correct and authorized collection of indulgences hitherto granted for all the faithful and for such as are in communities specially designated. Wherefore, if by chance any doubt should arise either as to sense of the grant or the conditions requisite for gaining the indulgences, it must be determined solely by this Raccolta which His Holiness has directed to be considered the complete guide. On this account he has ordered the present decree to be prepared and prefixed to the present edition. Given at Rome, at the office of the Secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Indulgences and Holy Relics, on the 23d day of July, 1898. FR. H. M. CARD. GOTTI, Prefect. L. ✠ S. † A. SABATUCCI, Archiep. Antinoen. Secretary. The Sacred Congregation of Indulgences and Holy Relics has approved of, as authentic, and permitted to be printed and published, this English translation of the Italian Raccolta, a book containing various prayers and pious exercises, to which the Roman Pontiffs have attached indulgences. This approbation was given after the work had been duly examined by two professors of theology of Woodstock College, who testified that they found this translation to be entirely faithful and in full accord with the Italian original, published in the year 1886 by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. Given at Rome, at the Office of the Secretary of this same Sacred Congregation, April 28, 1887. FR. THOMAS MARIA CARD. ZIGLIARA, Prefect. [L. ✠ S.] ALEXANDER, BISHOP OENSIS, Secretary. DECRETUM ANNI 1886. |
| Indulgence | The Sovereign Pontiff, Pius VII., by a rescript, Oct. 18, 1815, granted : AN INDULGENCE OF THREE HUNDRED DAYS, once a day, to all the faithful who shall say this prayer with at least contrite heart and devotion. |
| Rights | Public domain in the United States. |
- Prayers for
- reparation, thanksgiving, love of God
Albrecht Dürer, The Agony in the Garden, 1508. Art Institute of Chicago.
Most precious blood of life eternal, price and ransom of the world, whose saving streams nourish and cleanse our souls, ever pleading man’s cause before the throne of heavenly mercy! from the depths of my soul I adore thee: fain would I, were I able, make thee some compensation for the outrages and wrongs thou dost ever suffer from men, thy creatures, and, most of all, from those who, in their rashness, cease not to blaspheme thee. Who will not bless this blood of infinite value? who not burn for love of Jesus, who shed it all for us? What were I but for this blood which hath redeemed me? Love, assuredly love. O boundless love, which gave to us this saving balm beyond all price, welling from the fount of immeasurable love! Give to all hearts, to all tongues, power to praise, hymn, and thank thee, now and forever, and throughout all eternity! Amen.
The Sovereign Pontiff, Pius VII., by a rescript, Oct. 18, 1815, granted:
AN INDULGENCE OF THREE HUNDRED DAYS, once a day, to all the faithful who shall say this prayer with at least contrite heart and devotion.