Lamb of God modern Roman Catholic Christology, Karl Rahner has continued to elaborate on the analogy that the blood of the Lamb of God, and the water flowing from the side of Christ on Calvary, had a cleansing nature, similar to baptismal water. In this analogy, the blood of the Lamb washed away the sins of humanity in a new baptism, redeeming it from the fall of Adam. In the Mass of the Roman Rite and also in the Eucharist of the Anglican Communion, the Lutheran Church, and the Western Rite of the Orthodox Church the "Agnus Dei" is the invocation to the
Vitex agnus-castus cause great damage to the growth and the generative development of "Vitex agnus-castus". The insect feeds on chaste tree by sucking up the contents or puncturing them. As well chaste tree is the only known host (especially in Israel) for "Hyalesthus obsoletus". This cicada is the vector for black wood disease of grapevines. "Hyalesthus obsoletus" prefers "V. agnus-castus" as a host to the grapevine. In this case chaste tree can be used as a biological control agent by planting it around vineyards to trap the "Hyalesthus obsoletus". "V. agnus-castus" was found not only to be an appropriate food source for