Corpus Christi Procession

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Did your parish have a Corpus Christi Procession today (or on Thursday)? If so, what was it like? Well-attended? Any other events with it? Discuss!

This only refers to Rites that have Corpus Christi as part of the liturgical tradition. No need to vote “no” just because you’re from an Eastern or other Rite that has no such thing.

My report in the next post.
 
At my parish we ended up having a procession with the Blessed Sacrament (with canopy and incense and rose petals and all) just around the Church and back in, with a single Benediction at the High Altar.
We normally have two outdoor altars set up and have a longer procession with two Benedictions outside before the final one at the High Altar. But it was pouring down rain this morning and we decided to simplify. If it had kept raining, we would have just had the clergy and servers process inside the church and then Benediction. I was the thurifer.
Afterwards we had our big annual parish potluck (and water balloon fight!).

I know several other parishes around had processions too. The Bishop did one at the Cathedral, as he has for several years.
 
It was beautiful, like in 1948, the last time before the Communist banned it in Hungary.

In the church when I am home it was a New Form mass, English. At the end the priest changed the chasuble to cope, took the velum. Fist went the girls scattering petals, the the altar servers with candles, the two server with the bells, then the knights, the the priests, the the thurifers, then under the Balanchine the celebrant with the Most Holy Sacrament in the monstrance, followed by the choir, then the people, as many as fit to the church. Two police cars blocked the traffic on the street, the first altar was at South, the second at East, the third North, the fourth West. At each altar the priest read the Gospel and gave benediction. The process finished at the Church, with Latin benediction. It lasted about an hour.

I felt the freedom in the 21st Century at the gloomy middle of America, and the joy of being Christian, who can go out to the streets.
 
You would have been hard pressed to know that today was a special feast what with no reference to it in any of the songs, and the focus on the children and adult choirs performing for Father and actually singing a song directly TO him because he’s leaving at the end of August. To make sure the children could sing it, the DM picked “The Spirit Is A-Moving” as the recessional.
 
Nope. Nada. Nothing. Not a thing. It was a Latin Mass that is usually sung, but today it was a Low Mass without a choir or even an organ. No flowers, no procession, no benediction-nothing at all except for the sequence. It was a little surprising (not to mention disappointing) to say the least.

They did say the Mass for Corpus Christi, though I thought that the EF calendar specified the Mass for the 2nd week after Pentecost.
 
SoulSurvivorJMJ said:
Nope. Nada. Nothing. Not a thing. It was a Latin Mass that is usually sung, but today it was a Low Mass without a choir or even an organ. No flowers, no procession, no benediction-nothing at all except for the sequence. It was a little surprising (not to mention disappointing) to say the least.

They did say the Mass for Corpus Christi, though I thought that the EF calendar specified the Mass for the 2nd week after Pentecost.
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The Feast of Corpus Christi is actually on a Thursday. Our pastor mentioned that he needed permission to say the Corpus Christi Mass today instead of using the propers for the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost, the Sunday within the Octave of Corpus Christi. (There is no weekday EF Mass there.)
 
No procession in my parish, but the Homily was focused on the Precious Body and Blood, and on the Real Presence. The sequence was not sung or read. Sad.
 
SoulSurvivorJMJ said:
Nope. Nada. Nothing. Not a thing. It was a Latin Mass that is usually sung, but today it was a Low Mass without a choir or even an organ. No flowers, no procession, no benediction-nothing at all except for the sequence. It was a little surprising (not to mention disappointing) to say the least.

They did say the Mass for Corpus Christi, though I thought that the EF calendar specified the Mass for the 2nd week after Pentecost.
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But did they celebrate it on Thursday?
 
Outside procession with four altars, petals, two censors, and benediction at each altar. I was worried when I realized that Corpus Christi was going to be at the end of June this year. Usually it’s really hot. It was a nice 75 degrees today! 😃
 
We had a procession, with incense, inside the church. I’m glad it wasn’t outside. It was 105 today, so an outside procession wouldn’t be much fun.
 
CatholicZ09 said:
Outside procession with four altars, petals, two censors, and benediction at each altar. I was worried when I realized that Corpus Christi was going to be at the end of June this year. Usually it’s really hot. It was a nice 75 degrees today! 😃
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It was in the 100s today, so the celebrant decided not to have one because of the heat advisory. However, we did have benediction before Mass. Of course, down here, we’ve been hitting the 100s ever since Holy Week. :eek:

I did manage to chant the entire sequence at an earlier Mass (which left me drained); however, at the second Mass, the celebrant had mercy on me and elected to read it instead.
 
We had a procession around the block where the church is with all the works, except outside altars. Two thuribles with some SERIOUS incense (there was so much, it was difficult to see the lid of the thurible sometimes!), a canopy, hand bells announcing the coming of The Lord, lots of servers, banners carried among the faithful, and the bishop! It was awesome!

Also, for the Mass, we had Byrd’s Ave Verum Corpus at the offertory, with lots of other awesome music.
 
benedictgal said:
I did manage to chant the entire sequence at an earlier Mass (which left me drained); however, at the second Mass, the celebrant had mercy on me and elected to read it instead.
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I admire you for being able to chant. I tried chanting the “Veni Creator Spiritus” during the Laying on of Hands for the Ordination Mass yesterday, and I found it hard to do. Trying to look at the music and read the different language is hard! 😦
 
I forgot to add that we used the church bells during the procession. The “bells” are actually a tape, so it made it really easy. 😉

I had to lead the procession, so when they stopped at each altar, I couldn’t see anything since the band behind me had to push me back really far. 😦
 
We had a Corpus Christi procession. It went around the Church to the perpetual adoration chapel where afterwards we had benediction. Most of the people who went to the preceding Mass went to the procession. The Mass before it (Ordinary Form) had incense, a legion of servers, some of the singing in Latin, the whole works.

The sermon was great. The deacon told one of my favorite religious stories, that of Blessed Imelda Lambertini. At the mention of her name, I started smiling so wide the people around me must have thought there was something wrong with me. :o

Needless to say, I was very happy with it all. 🙂
 
We had a Corpus Christi Mass both on Thursday and yesterday (Sunday), and had the procession after Mass yesterday. We had a canopy, insense, and afterwards Benediction. it was very nice.
 
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Our parish had the works. This video is the conclusion of the pageant narrative of the Eucharistic Miracle of Bolsena-Orvieto, Italy followed by photos of our Corpus Christi Procession throughout neighboring streets showing a few of the 7 altars.
 
Nope, but we’re in Canada… I guess it’s not fair of me to vote? 😃
 
After the principal Sunday morning Mass we all knelt in the pews while the priest and servers proceeded in procession around the Church. This was concluded with Benediction.
 
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