Tag: 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.

Fr Bijoy Joseph joined three other Sydney Catholics at the historic epicentre of Eucharistic devotion, where Corpus Christi began

If this year's Walk with Christ underlined anything, it's that we're not going to get very far in the new evangelisation without lots of processions

Starting with a festival in Martin Place, the 2023 Corpus Christi procession drew Catholics of all ages and nationalities to walk with Christ

It’s Corpus Christi, which is a great time to be Catholic in public, as well as private. I love Eucharistic processions, because when I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, I hardly ever saw one. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament had really dropped out of fashion.

Anyone who has watched Monty Python’s Life of Brian can hardly forget the classic scene where John Cleese’s centurion gives a Latin lesson to Graham Chapman’s Brian. It took a bit of study, but I now know the proper translation for “Romans go home” is “Romani ite domum,” not “Romanes eunt domus,”

A short documentary on the popular Walk With Christ procession shows the importance of Eucharistic processions in a secular age