FEAST OF THE MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD

In aliquibus locis, the Friday after the Fourth Sunday of Lent was celebrated as the feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Precious Blood relic kept in Bruges, Flanders.

COLLECT

Almighty everlasting God, who didst ordain Thine only-begotten Son to be the Redeemer of the world, and willedst to be reconciled by His Blood; grant, we beseech Thee, so to venerate in this solemn rite the price of our salvation, and to be so protected from the evils of this present life by its power here on earth, that we may rejoice in its eternal fruits in Heaven. Through the same Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen.