The celebration of the Corpus Christi feast was suppressed during the Reformation in Protestant churches and hence most Protestants do not recognise or celebrate the feast. Poppy Logo. FB house promo.
Share this article via facebook Share this article via twitter Share this article via messenger Share this with Share this article via email Share this article via flipboard Copy link. Given the culture of the early 13th century, she felt there was nothing she could do about instituting such a feast.
However, she had confided in two individuals, other than a few members of her monastery, about the visions — both of whom proved to be helpful in bringing its establishment to fruition. The young monk who served as St. Eventually their diocesan bishop approved the texts and authorized its celebration in his diocese in Juliana and one of her confidantes, was instrumental in bringing the feast beyond its provincial origins after St. Eva had contacted Pope Urban IV with the request to celebrate the feast throughout the universal Church.
He assigned papal theologian St. Thomas Aquinas to compose new liturgical texts for the feast. Many of the original texts for Corpus Christi composed by St. One of the key liturgical facets of Corpus Christi is its procession. Of course, processions have great biblical, liturgical and popular pietistic importance. In the Old Testament, think of the processions with the Ark of the Covenant, or the innumerable accounts of festal pilgrimage processions to Jerusalem — praising God with music and dance — of which the Psalms speak.
Or in the New Testament, think of the procession of Christ through those first Palm Sunday crowds who shouted his praises. Processions of the faithful enable Christians to give public witness to their faith, give glory to God, and they symbolize our earthly pilgrimage to the heavenly Jerusalem.
Eucharistic processions began shortly after the institution of the solemnity of Corpus Christi. The medieval Eucharistic processions on Corpus Christi were grand and stately affairs, involving entire towns and cities. They were particularly glorious in European Catholic monarchies, where sovereigns and nobility, other civic officials and military guards took part. The faithful knelt in place outside their homes as the procession came by.
In recent decades, a papal celebration of Corpus Christi winds its way through the streets of Rome to the Basilica of St. Michelle Schroeder. Adobe Stock. Share Pin 1. You may also like. Green up your space. Saints for today's kids. Faith talk for families: Human life is sacred. Five ways to keep your summer faith-filled.
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