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The Blood That Ransomed Us: Steve Ray on the July Devotion to the Precious Blood of Jesus – Steve Ray – 07/01/2026
Steve Ray — author, pilgrimage guide, and host of Defenders of the Catholic Faith — joins Bo Bonner for his recurring monthly segment, this time on the Church's July devotion to the Most Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, whose feast falls on July 1. Steve explains how the devotion, formally established for the universal Church by Pope Pius IX in 1849, connects the Old Testament's Passover sacrifice to the New Testament's teaching on Christ as the once-for-all Lamb of God.
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Why "the life is in the blood" (Leviticus 17:11) grounds the entire biblical theology of…
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