Transform our sinful blood into the blood of your love.

Take the blood of our body, of our souls… Take it into your chalice, which the angel has handed to you, into the chalice that your priest raises day by day! Transform us, Lord, transform our sinful blood, transform it into the blood of your love.

(Erich Przywara SJ /1889–1972/, Prayers of this Age, 13; during World War II)