Tag: Corpus Christi

This year, when you walk the streets of Sydney surrounded by the voices of nearly 20,000 Catholics proclaiming their faith at the Walk with Christ procession, take note of the ‘invisible army’ forming the ‘human wall’ at the front of the procession or handing out booklets and directing traffic, working tirelessly behind the scenes.

The Catholic Church Down Under has caught the attention of the Catholic world as it experiences a powerful resurgence of faith.

This is the edited text of the homily given by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP at the Mass of Corpus Christi, The Solemnity of the most holy body and blood of Jesus Christ at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, 2 June 2024. 

This is the edited text of the Feverino given by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP for benediction after "Walk with Christ" at St Mary's Cathedral forecourt, Sydney, Corpus Christi, 2 June 2024. 

Pope Francis celebrated the solemnity of Corpus Christi at the basilica of St John Lateran Sunday 2 June, after a period of time celebrating it on the outskirts of the Vatican.

In prams and in wheelchairs, hand-in-hand and on foot, generations of Catholics from every Rite and religious order across Sydney converged together at the mother church as 15,000 witnesses this Corpus Christi.

As we celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi today, many are experiencing conversion and the love of God as the National Eucharist Pilgrimage takes Jesus to the streets.

For the Sarmientos, Sydney’s annual Corpus Christi procession is an opportunity to enrich and share faith.

Chant has been called the highest art form in the church and on 2 June St Mary’s Cathedral will again echo with the sound of sacred chants spanning centuries, at the annual Corpus Christi procession and Mass.

Pope Francis will return to St John Lateran and St Mary Major to preside over the Solemnity of Corpus Christi on 2 June, after 7 years away.

Thousands of Sydneysiders are preparing to take their faith to the streets in two of the biggest public professions of faith on the Catholic calendar. As Sydney braces for a festival of faith, a new documentary by the Archdiocese of Sydney celebrates the history of Catholic processions in the city.

Australia might have to keep praying for its first Eucharistic miracle, after claims of a “bleeding” host in a Melbourne Catholic parish seem to have been more mundane than miraculous. Unconfirmed social media reports circulating for the last month claimed that St Paul’s Catholic Church in Melbourne’s Sunshine West had been the site of a Eucharistic miracle on 14 May, Divine Mercy Sunday.