Did your parish have a Corpus Christi procession?

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I know exactly what you mean. It was so nostalgic. I think I teared up a little.
 
Yes, I think it was 3rd year that they have done this. I was unable to attend this year, but other years the turn out was wonderful, so I am assuming it was again a success!
 
We had a procession for Corpus Christi on Saturday, but I have to work on Saturdays so 🤷
 
We had a procession with 4 stations, choir singing songs, little girls tossing rose petals in front of our Lord, and incense.

I didn’t get to participate in the procession. We have a Parish picnic after the procession. I, and several other people were making everything ready for the party. 😃
 
Yes…we had six home altars on our route. took a little over an hour to get back to the Church for the closing Benediction.
 
A Corpus Christi procession? Are you kidding? I wish. I belong to a hip and with-it parish. 🙂
 
liturgyluver said:
I am surprised by the suggestion that use of incense is not used every sunday at mass! Is it really that unusual in the US?
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We have incense every Sunday at my FSSP parish.
However, incense is rarely used at the non-FSSP parishes where Iassist at Mass.
We did have it for one mass for Corpus Christi Sunday and Father specified in the bulletin which Mass would involve incense. It was wonderful watching Him incense the gifts (including ourselves:)) .
 
liturgyluver said:
I am surprised by the suggestion that use of incense is not used every sunday at mass! Is it really that unusual in the US?
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It depends on the parish. Our Parish has one Sunday Mass with incense, with appropriate warnings in the bulletin; so the allergic/sensitive can plan accordingly.
 
Yes we had a procession around our church grounds, with the first communion little girls strewing flowers and lots of incense. I love Corpus Christi day, I think it’s one of the most beautiful holy days that the Church celebrates.
 
We had a procession from our church through the nearby streets (halting traffic marvelously for a good while into the bargain), collecting a a further congregation from the other church close by and up into the centre of a park nearby. Incense; the entire (college? mass? what’s the most appropriate collective noun? Wikipedia also suggests ‘lechery’ which I’m not going with!) of priests from the Oratory; first communicants wearing white; the girls bedecking the streets with flowers; (marshals in high-viz jackets keeping the cars at bay!); we alternated between praying the Rosary and singing Eucharistic hymns accompanied by a brass band…pretty much as far as I can tell, ‘the works’, and all in very beautiful weather. Probably a good 350-400 people were there; it was a fabulous day. Corpus Christi is one of my favourite and I think among the most beautiful holy days of the year. 😃
 
7_Sorrows said:
We did not have a procession or incense at my church.

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Maybe next year!

It helps if you can gather reports about what other parishes have done, showing there might be more desire for it than was expected.

I see Catholics going to evangelical churches, which don’t believe in devotions, then joining with a third of the congregation walking down the aisle for an Altar Call!
Veterans, firemen, and others march every year in 4th of July parades, for patriotism.
Corpus Christi is a very physical feast, with the word for consuming the Eucharist translated as gnaw, chew, that sense - not some vague, ethereal “spirituality”. It is a heresy that keeps spiritual split from the material. The sacraments are a reminder that this split was never intended, that we are a eucharistic, sacramental people, with sights, sounds, smells, and get-up-and-process, with our bodies.
 
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