The Eucharistic Lord is carried under a canopy and taken through the streets of Oxford.
"Let this procession be your choice to say, 'God, I want you to recognize me in Your Glory, so I'm going to cling to You.'"
Let everyone be struck with fear, the whole world tremble, and the heavens exult when Christ, the Son of the living God, ...
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Save the date: May 27. That is when all people of faith are encouraged to join the source and summit of the Catholic faith — the Eucharist — in a procession on historic Summit Avenue in St. Paul.
"You're invited to be a martyr. You're invited to bear witness to the True Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist..."
On Sunday 10 June, the Feast of Corpus Christi, Catholics of Oxford took part in a Eucharistic Procession from the Oxford Oratory to the Catholic Chaplaincy, pausing at Blackfriars Priory for a sermon given by Bishop William Kenney CP, auxiliary of Birmingham.
Cork’s Eucharistic Procession takes place on Sunday, June 3. Here Carmel O’Shea, from Model Farm Road, recalls her fond memories of the holy event ...
"You're invited to be a martyr. You're invited to bear witness to the True Presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist..."
Rosary Roman Catholic Church celebrated the feast of Corpus Christi with a Traditional Solemn Procession on Sunday. Families and faithful travelled to different parts of Winnipeg and neighbouring Saskatchewan and Northwest Ontario. Photos by David Lipnowski.
Well, I think I have a new favorite resource here on the blog- this Eucharistic Procession set was the sweet gift of inspiration and was so much fun to make! It was a rare project where the final result matches the image in my head. (fellow creators- you can relate to how rare this is!) Just in time for Corpus Christi Sunday, you can make your own "paper doll" version of a Eucharistic Procession. I've got a few different variations from the more complicated 3-D version in the photo to a simple coloring page, but I do hope that they are a tool to inspire Eucharistic Devotion in your home and classroom. What is a Eucharistic Procession? A Eucharistic procession is like a holy parade that brings Jesus, truly present in the Holy Eucharist, into the world that he loves. The Blessed Sacrament is placed in a monstrance and carried out of the church by a priest. A Eucharistic procession sometimes begins at one church and ends at another. It can be a short walk around the neighborhood of a church or can stretch for miles and miles from start to finish. Along the way, Jesus is accompanied by priests, deacons, altar servers, and people of all ages. Together they can pray the Rosary, sing hymns, or walk in silent prayer. Processions are often planned for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, but can take place just about any time of the year. The altar servers might carry a canopy, processional cross, candles, a thurible, or bells. One type of processional canopy, a baldachhino, is held over the monstrance by four servers holding a pole for each corner. This creates a sacred space that is set aside for the Eucharist during the movement of the procession. The processional cross is a large crucifix attached to a long handle that can be lifted high for all to see. The candles remind us of Jesus, the Light of the World, truly present in the Holy Eucharist. The thurible is filled with burning incense, which releases sweet smelling smoke that rises to the sky, symbolizing our prayers rising to Heaven. The bells incorporate another of our five senses, announcing that Jesus is really present here with us. A Eucharistic procession is a wonderful opportunity to worship our Lord and pray together as a community as we witness our faith publicly to the world. Make your own Eucharistic Procession Model You can use this printable set to make your own model of a Eucharistic procession with a priest, servers, and lay people. The priest can carry the Monstrance and the servers can carry the processional canopy, candles, cross, and thurible. Use the tips on each page to put the model pieces together, and then set up the whole Eucharistic procession on a table or floor. Sing a Eucharistic hymn or say a prayer, praising the Lord for the gift of the Eucharist Then check with churches in your area and attend a real Eucharistic procession with your family! Click here to download the whole Eucharistic Procession set, including an explanation of processions, making it easy to share with students or other families: If you'd like to create the Eucharistic Procession, but don't need the supporting pieces to made the figures stand on their own, this paper saver version reduces the whole set down to three pages, and would be great for making a poster or other two-dimensional set: And click here for just a coloring page of a Eucharistic Procession: And click here for the model set in Spanish:
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SOLEMN MASS FOR THE FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI - THURSDAY, JUNE 19, 2014 AT CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS (NYC) WITH AN OUTDOORS PROCESSION AFTER THE MASS ******* IN THE VERY HEART OF THE GARMENT DISTRICT/FASHION CENTER OF MIDTOWN MANHATTAN, NYC ******* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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Dear Catholic Exchange: In our parish we reintroduced the Corpus Christi procession. I think it is a great idea to stand up and demonstrate our belief in the power of the Blessed Sacrament and its centrality in our Faith, especially in today’s anti-Catholic atmosphere. We receive, during the procession, the blessing of the four (north, […]
According to Canon Law (Can. 944 §1,2) "Wherever in the judgment of the diocesan Bishop it can be done, a procession through the streets is to be held, especially on the solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, as a public witness of veneration of the Blessed Eucharist. It is for the diocesan Bishop to establish such regulations about processions as will provide participation in them and for their being carried out in a dignified manner." Above, the Procession departs from Blackfriars priory church, the second 'station' of the Oxford Procession. This photo is from the 2008 Procession, when Bishop William Kenney CP took part. This year's Procession is on Sunday 6 June when Corpus Christi is celebrated in England & Wales.
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"Let this procession be your choice to say, 'God, I want you to recognize me in Your Glory, so I'm going to cling to You.'"
This is so cool! 🤩 The Napa Institute led a Eucharistic procession through the streets of New York City on Oct. 12, the evening before the 104th anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima’s Miracle of the Sun. Pictures and videos surfaced online of the beautiful event sponsored by the Catholic
Two people refusing to follow the Holy Father allowed themselves to be used, duped and manipulated by President Obama in his bid to divide and conquer the Catholic Church in America in order to promote his socialistic agenda that the Catholic Church opposes. They are complicit in a very serious way in what is happening today with Obama's serious threat to impinge upon Religious Liberty and Freedom of Conscience--they need to publicly repent for the sake of the Catholic Community. They are Fr. John Jenkins, President of Notre Dame University and Sister Carol Kenhan DC, holding the pen that President Obama used to sign his health care law that she gleefully supported in opposition to the American bishops. My Comments first: What the Holy Father says below is very much tied into Catholic Identity built upon the Church's orthodox faith and our obedient acquiescence to it. As Catholics, the enemy within the Church which is more insidious than the enemies outside the Church, such as the anti-Catholicism of President Obama and his administration, but those within the Church who reject the Church's teaching and traditional faith and are trying to remake the Church according a secular model. These elitist Catholics like what has transpired in the Anglican Communion (Protestant-Episcopal Church in America)which has become very secular and post-Christian, almost Unitarian. We must name who these people are in the clergy and laity of the Catholic Church: they are progressive liberals who hate Humanae Vitae and traditional Catholic moral theology. They are secular democrats who wish to impose upon the Church through civil law a secular model that conforms the Church to the world. Preeminent amongst these so-called Catholics is the Vice President of the United States,Joseph Biden, the former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi and the current head of Health and Human Services, Katherine Sebelis. We can also include the likes of most in the Kennedy clan. They are Revs. Charles Curran and Hans Kung. They are presidents of some Catholic Universities like Rev. John Jenkins of Notre Dame who poked the bishop of his diocese in the eye by not rescinding an invitation to President Obama who spoke there. That pivotal moment was a victory for the President's anti-Catholic agenda and his desire to divide and conquer the Catholic Church--Fr. Jenkins appeased that and was complicit in it. We need not fear those new movements in the Catholic Church, who in their enthusiasm and founding years have experimented with the Liturgy and made it more "horizontal and meal like" but at the same time uphold orthodox Catholic faith and morals and obedience to the legitimate authority of the Magisterium of the Church and the Holy Father. Time will purify their "liturgical renewal style." But the leaven they bring to the Church from within and to the world outside is a public witness to their pure Catholic faith and acceptance of the moral teachings of the Church and fidelity to the Magisterium in the areas of faith, morals and Church Law. These new movements embrace Vatican II and Pope Paul VI in two ways that the left and the right in the Church tend to vilify. The left vilifies Humanae Vitae and thus natural law and thus divine law and the right vilifies the renewal of the liturgy and the experimentation that Holy Church allowed in the 1960's and 70's. In vilifying either, these groups vilify the authority of the Church and her Magisterium and thus strive to diminish assent to that authority from within. The two groups are cut from the same cloth. They diminish the true Faith of the Catholic Church and produce for her a "profound crisis." Year of Faith is Pope's response to 'profound crisis' Vatican City, Jan 27, 2012 / 01:48 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The upcoming 2012-2013 “Year of Faith” seeks to awaken humanity at a critical moment, Pope Benedict XVI said as he addressed the Church's highest doctrinal office on Jan. 27. “In vast areas of the earth the faith risks being extinguished, like a flame without fuel,” the Pope told assembled members of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, who met in a plenary session on Friday. “We are facing a profound crisis of faith, a loss of a religious sense which represents one of the greatest challenges for the Church today.” Pope Benedict hopes the Year of Faith, which will run from Oct. 11, 2012 to Nov. 24, 2013, will contribute “to restoring God's presence in this world, and to giving man access to the faith, enabling him to entrust himself to the God who, in Jesus Christ, loved us to the end.” “The renewal of faith,” the Pope announced, “must, then, be a priority for the entire Church in our time.” His remarks to the doctrinal congregation came two days after the feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul, the final day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The Pope spoke about the quest to reunite all Christians, as he acknowledged that ecumenical efforts had not always served to strengthen believers' faith. Along with the “many good fruits that have emerged from ecumenical dialogue,” there are also “risks of indifference and of false irenicism” – which give the appearance of unity, without regard for truth. In today's world, the Pope observed, there is an “increasingly widespread” perception “that truth is not accessible to man, and that, therefore, we must limit ourselves to finding rules to improve this world.” “In this scenario,” he noted, “faith comes to be replaced by a shallow-rooted moralism,” which can cause the dialogue between Christian groups to become superficial. “By contrast, the core of true ecumenism is faith, in which man encounters the truth revealed in the Word of God.” Pope Benedict told officials of the doctrine congregation, the office he led before his election to the papacy, that controversial issues cannot be downplayed or ignored in talks between the Catholic Church and other Christian churches and communities. Matters of faith and morals, he said, “must be faced courageously, while always maintaining a spirit of fraternity and mutual respect … In our dialogues we cannot overlook the great moral questions about human life, the family, sexuality, bioethics, freedom, justice and peace.” By defending the Church's authentic tradition, he observed, “we defend man and we defend the creation.” YOU MAY WISH TO READ FATHER GEORGE RUTLER'S LETTER TO HIS PARISHIONERS CONCERNING THE ANTI-CHRIST BY PRESSING HERE--IT'S ALL TIED TOGETHER.
