Liturgical Resources

The January 2011 issues of the Wine Cellar ncludes articles on leadership by: Joseph Nassal, C.PP.S., Bishop Joseph Charron, C.PP.S., Jan Renz, ASC, Angelo Anthony, C.PP.S., Mary Whited, C.PP.S., Andree Fries, C.PP.S., John Robert McCray and William Nordenbrock, C.PP.S.

The Precious Blood Founders Hymn Collection. Canton/Unison/Congregation and Keyboard . Text and Music by Ralph C. Verdi, C.PP.S.

This hymn is a part of a series of hymns entitled "Precious Blood Founders Hymn Collection" composed by Fr. Ralph Verdi, C.PP.S. Music is available in printed form for congregation and keyboard as well as an audio recording of the hymn.

This hymn is a part of a series of hymns entitled "Precious Blood Founders Hymn Collection" composed by Fr. Ralph Verdi, C.PP.S. Music is available in printed form for congregation and keyboard as well as an audio recording of the hymn.

This hymn is a part of a series of hymns entitled "Precious Blood Founders Hymn Collection" composed by Fr. Ralph Verdi, C.PP.S. Music is available in printed form for congregation and keyboard as well as an audio recording of the hymn.

This hymn is a part of a series of hymns entitled "Precious Blood Founders Hymn Collection" composed by Fr. Ralph Verdi, C.PP.S. Music is available in printed form for congregation and keyboard as well as an audio recording of the hymn.

This hymn is a part of a series of hymns entitled "Precious Blood Founders Hymn Collection" composed by Fr. Ralph Verdi, C.PP.S. Music is available in printed form for congregation and keyboard as well as an audio recording of the hymn.

On the occasion of the Third Precious Blood Congress held at the University of Dayton on August 1-4, 2005, a meeting of Roman Catholic religious communities founded upon devotion to Jesus Christ under the aspect of the shedding of his Most Precious Blood, I was asked by the liturgical planning committee of the sponsoring organization, the Precious Blood Leadership Conferenc (PBLC), to provide a unifying congress theme song.

In keeping with the spirit of the Second Ecumenical Vatican Council, the time-honored hymn, Glory Be to Jesus, with its original text from the 18th century, has been revised both textually and musically to meet the demands of today's liturgical needs without eclipsing authentic values of the past.  Since this hymn has been consistently used and accepted by many in the rligious families of the Precious Blood and their Associates and Companions sinc ethe hymn's introduction in 1916, it holds a unique place in their life of worship as it is a hymn directly to Christ under the aspect of hi

Reflection Time: Who has been a role model of a missionary heart in your life? Call to mind an example of how this person lived their missionary call.

Precious Blood Convocation, St. Louis University, July 26-29, 2010. PDF scores and MP3s of Instrumental track and vocal track are available to download. Copyright 2009 by Ralph C. Verdi. All Rights Reserved.

I would venture to say that most of the images of blood that we are exposed to reveal situations here blood is poured out in violence. We see casualties of war, shooting in the street and domestic violence in the home. Blood is seen s a scary thing. For some, the very sight of blood causes them to turn pale, get light headed and pass out on the floor!

Near the end of the year at our little Catholic school, in the Gospel at the children's mass we heard Jesus tell his followers that unless they became like little children, they could not enter the kingdom of heaven. I love that reading and the children probably do too. It is a vindication for their way of life. Nearly always the situation is reversed and they are shown adult role models and told to act more grown up. Once in a blue moon, in church, they get to listen in as the grownups are told to act more like children.

Over the years that our oldest son, now a senior, played high school football, I experienced a slow conversion from being someone who hated football and most other sports to someone who could on occasion tell a guard from a tackle. (The guard is next to the center and the tackle is on the end of the offensive line, duh.)

Our sixth grader's basketball games in our little Christian league always began with a prayer. Players, coaches and officials gathered at the center of the court and recited the same prayer each week from battered pieces of paper that were collected to be used again the following week.

But at one away game last season, somebody forgot to pack the prayer papers. There was a moment of stunned silence before one of the coaches on the opposing team volunteered to lead an extemporaneous prayer.

In the life of a missionary, what goes around comes around. Nearly 20 years ago Fr. David Kelly, C.PP.S., met a young man named Xavier McElrath-Bey when Fr. Kelly went to minister at the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center in Chicago.

"I was facing a murder charge, and Fr. Kelly was a great source of consolation to me," McElrath-Bey said. "He shared the Word of God with me, and he kept me motivated, thinking about my future."

The members of a parish draw comfort and strength from each other. That spiritual strength can also stretch far beyond the walls of the parish church.

At Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Ottawa, Ohio, as at many Precious Blood parishes, the people have initiated outreach to C.PP.S. missions in other countries. Sts. Peter and Paul has a twinning relationship with the C.PP.S. mission in Guatemala.

If you had to define your spiritual life, if you had to identify its characteristics as if it were a new species of butterfly, could you do it? How would you describe your spirituality? Are you a contemplative, a mystic, a missionary, a preacher, a poet, a doer, a disciple? What songs and prayers most stir your spiritual imagination? What path calls to you on your walk of faith?

"...I understand that Joe and I are following the Moderator General’s retreat of last year (Fr. Francesco Bartoloni’s) very successful retreat of 2006. Let it be known that neither Joe or I have aspirations for the MG position..."

There is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Emmanuel's veins; And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains. Lose all their guilty stains, lose all their guilty stains; And sinners, plunged benath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains.

Eternal Father, we offer you the precious blood of Jesus.

For the 25th anniversary of the Kansas City Province of the Society of the Precious Blood.

Redeemed - how I love to proclaim it! Redeemed by the blood of the Lamb; redeemed thro' His infinite mercy, His child, and forever, I am. Redeemed, redeemed, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, redeemed, redeemed, His child, and forever, I am.

Come, ev'ry soul by sin oppressed, There's mercy with the Lord, And he will surely give you rest By trusting in His word. Only trust Him, only trust Him, only trust Him now. He will save you, He will save you, He will save you now.

What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus; What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh! precious is the flow That makes me white as snow; No other fount I know, Nothing but the blood of Jesus.

Down at the cross where my Savior died, Down where for cleansing from sin I cried, there to my heart was the blood applied; Glory to His name. Glory to His name, Glory to His name! There to my heart was the blood applied; Glory to His name.

Come, let us adore the Lamb who saved us with his blood.

Last fall, while I was on retreat, I came across a poster that caught my eye. It was a picture of a mother holding her infant and the caption read: “Every human being began in the heart of God.” There is something about the image of a heart that speaks a language all its own. We hear it in such simple phrases such as:

Christ the Victor, Christ the Savior, Christ, Redeemer of us...

Christ, the Song of God, who with His blood has redeemed us, O come, let us adore, O come let us adore.