We at the Most Precious Blood, SE1 were blessed in celebrating our feast of title with the first mass of Fr Jonathan Creer, an Ordinariate Catholic of our own group and parish. Fr Jonathan was ordained in the Birmingham Oratory, and so is in every sense a son of Blessed John Henry Newman.

1 Glory be to Jesus,
who, in bitter pains,
poured for me the life-blood
from his sacred veins.

2 Grace and life eternal
in that blood I find;
blessed be his compassion
infinitely kind.

3 Blessed through endless ages
be the precious stream,
which from endless torments
did the world redeem.

7 Lift ye then your voices;
swell the mighty flood;
louder still and louder
praise the precious blood.