Fr. David Howell: Christ’s Blood Has an Infinite Power to Cleanse Our Souls
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By Fr. David Howell, Catholic Herald, July 6, 2025 at 8:00 am
Fr David Howell is an assistant priest at St Bede’s in Clapham Park. His previous studies include canon law in Rome, Classics at Oxford and a licence in Patristics at the Augustinianum Institute in Rome. He is a regular contributor to the Catholic Herald; his other articles can be accessed here.
“Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river” (Isaiah 66:12)
In today’s first reading, peace is described as a river, and in this month of July, dedicated to the Precious Blood of Jesus, we can think of the blood that poured from his pierced heart.
Ezechiel had a vision of a river flowing from the side of the Temple that brought life even to the barren waters of the Dead Sea (chapter 47): the Church sees that passage as a foreshadowing of this river of Jesus’s blood.
Our first reading also talks of mothers suckling their children, and St John Chrysostom saw this too as an image of Christ’s blood: “As a woman nourishes her child with her own blood and milk, so does Christ unceasingly nourish with his own blood those to whom he himself has given life” (Catechesis 3, 13-19). …
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