Collects, Epistles and Gospels
for the Proper of Saints
Most
Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ
INTROIT. Redemisti. Rev. 5
THOU hast redeemed us, O Lord, by thy Blood, out of every kindred,
and tongue, and people, and nation: and hast made us a kingdom
for our God. Ps. 89. My song shall be alway of the loving-kindness
of the Lord: with my mouth will I ever be shewing thy truth from
one generation to another. V. Glory be.
The Collect.
Almighty and everlasting God, who didst ordain that thine only
begotten Son should be the Redeemer of the world, and hast vouchsafed
to accept his Blood as the propitiation for our sins: mercifully
grant that we who here rejoice to honour that Blood, the price
of our salvation; may be defended by its power in this present
world, and rejoice in the everlasting fruits thereof in the world
to come. Through the same.
The Epistle. Hebrews 9:11-15
11 BRETHREN: Christ being come an high priest of good things
to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with
hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood
he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us.
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an
heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of
the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal
Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience
from dead works to serve the living God?
15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament,
that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions
that were under the first testament, they which are called might
receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
GRADUAL. 1 John 5. This is he
that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ: not by water
only, but by water and blood. V. There are three that bare record
in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. and these
three are one. And there are three that bare witness in earth:
the Spirit, and the Water, and the Blood: and these three agree
in one.
Alleluia, alleluia. V. If we receive the witness of men, the
witness of God is greater. Alleluia.
In Votive Masses after Septuagesima:
GRADUAL. 1 St. John 5, as
above, but omitting Alleluia and the verse following.
TRACT. Ephes. 1. God hath made
us accepted in his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption through
his Blood. V. The forgiveness of sins according to the riches
of his grace, wherein he hath abounded toward us. V. Rom.
3. Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption,
that is in Christ Jesus. V. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation
through faith in his Blood.
In Votive Masses in Eastertide is
said: Alleluia, alleluia. V. Rev.
5. Thou art worthy, O Lord, to take the book, and to open
the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us
to God by thy Blood. Alleluia. V. Exod. 12. The blood
shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and
when I see the blood, I will pass over you: and the plague shall
not be upon you to destroy you. Alleluia.
The Gospel. St John 19:30-35a
30 At that time: When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar,
he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the
ghost.
31 The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the
bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for
that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their
legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
32 Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and
of the other which was crucified with him.
33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already,
they brake not his legs:
34 But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and
forthwith came there out blood and water.
35 And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true.
OFFERTORY. 1 Cor. 10. The Cup of blessing which we
bless, is it not the Communion of the Blood of Christ? The bread
which we break, is it not the Communion of the Body of Christ?
SECRET.
GRANT, O Lord of Hosts, we pray thee, that in these holy mysteries
we may draw near to Jesus, the mediator of our new covenant:
and at thine altars be sprinkled yet again with the Blood that
speaketh better things than that of Abel. Through the same.
PREFACE of the Cross.
COMMUNION. Heb. 9. So Christ was once offered to bear
the sins of many: and to them that look for him shall he appear
the second time without sin unto Salvation.
POSTCOMMUNION.
O LORD, who hast suffered us to approach thy holy temple, and
with joy to draw water out of the wells of salvation: we pray
thee; that the precious Blood of our Redeemer may be in us a
well of water springing up unto life eternal. Through the same.