Is this Sunday the Feast of Corupus Christi?

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Someone is missing something here. It is no longer the feast of “Corpus Christi”. Some years ago, it was changed to the feast of “The body and Blood of Jesus”. At that time the feast of Corpus Christi and the feast of the Precious Blood (July 1) were joined to better express the unity of the body and blood in the Eucharist.
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Actually, the above is what is “missing” something.

The term “Body and Blood of Christ” is strictly an American usage, arrived at by our lovely bishops’ liturgical commitee. (The official name in England is now “The Day of Thanksgiving for the Institution of Holy Communion,” another awful mouthful**.**) The official name of the feast in Latin remain Corpus Christi, and not "Corpus et Sanguis Christi." The change in title in the U.S. came about in the early 1990’s.

The feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord, formerly on 1 July, was suppressed when the new kalendar was promulgated in 1969, and not twenty-plus years later, when Corpus Christi was renamed in the USA. The reason for its suppression was indeed the promotion of the understanding of Corpus Christi in terns of both Sacred Species. However, this was unfortunate because the feast of the Precious Blood (still observed at indult Masses who use the 1962 kalendar) was not, strictly speaking, eucharistic in nature, but theological/devotional, and referred more to the Sacred Wounds of Our Lord and the hypostatic union of Our Lord’s divine and human natures.
 
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Actually, the above is what is “missing” something.

The term “Body and Blood of Christ” is strictly an American usage, arrived at by our lovely bishops’ liturgical commitee. (The official name in England is now “The Day of Thanksgiving for the Institution of Holy Communion,” another awful mouthful**.**) The official name of the feast in Latin remain Corpus Christi, and not "Corpus et Sanguis Christi." The change in title in the U.S. came about in the early 1990’s.

The feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord, formerly on 1 July, was suppressed when the new kalendar was promulgated in 1969, and not twenty-plus years later, when Corpus Christi was renamed in the USA. The reason for its suppression was indeed the promotion of the understanding of Corpus Christi in terns of both Sacred Species. However, this was unfortunate because the feast of the Precious Blood (still observed at indult Masses who use the 1962 kalendar) was not, strictly speaking, eucharistic in nature, but theological/devotional, and referred more to the Sacred Wounds of Our Lord and the hypostatic union of Our Lord’s divine and human natures.
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Next Sunday is July 1st, and because the feast of the Precious Blood is a 1st class feast, those of us who attend the TLM will have that feast instead of the 5th Sunday after Pentecost.
 
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