The Best Cleansing Chemical is the Blood of Christ

The Best Cleansing Chemical is the Blood of Christ

Perhaps most people would not consider blood as a chemical, but blood comprises one-third hemoglobin, by volume.   Plasma is about 92%.  There are four main components in the body fluid of blood. They are plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Blood contains cells, proteins, and sugars. Without going into a text-book definition of what all these elements perform, we shall just take for granted that this necessary fluid that gives and promotes human life for each person is more than just that.  

When anyone experiences an injury, or loses blood from some outside disease that requires a transfusion, we hope that some is available to save that person’s life.  While Jesus was hanging on the Cross and shedding every drop of precious blood, it was the lifegiving release of his very life that was emptied to save the lives of all humanity.  When a person needs a transfusion to save their life, so each of us who sins also needs a transfusion of divine life-giving fluid who is the Sacrificial Lamb sent to give us life from the deepest spiritual presence of a divine God.

By speaking of the Blood of Christ as a cleansing Chemical, we can see that there is no other formula for saving human life than an element that is holy, life-giving, and never loses its power to save us.  

During periods of a crisis for anyone, especially connected to a spiritual difficulty, we should pray for the Blood of Christ to immerse ourselves in and know that this precious life is covering our deepest period of an attack from an evil entity we can’t understand. 

Even though none of us can see the Blood of Christ, if we are open to his generous sacrifice of shedding it over our souls for freedom from a Satanic attack by transfusing divine with human attributes.   Remember the words of the deacon (or priest in the deacon’s absence) “By the mystery of this water and wine may we come to share in the divinity of Christ who humbled himself to share in our humanity.”  Words spoken as the elements of water and wine are mixed right before the consecration at Holy Mass.       

This is never a make believe gesture that is part of a spiritual exercise in the Catholic Church.  The mixing of our gifts with the elements by the Holy Spirit unites us with the resurrection of Jesus Christ during the doxology of the Consecrated Christ.

Through the crucified Christ, and his Blood that becomes our Holy Communion, we are cleansed of our sin, for all eternity.  Like an element that is covered by filth and requires a cleaning agent to clear away the filth of life, so our souls that have accumulated filth of sin are cleared away to let the creation God has made to shine as it was created to do in God’s presence.

Ralph B. Hathaway