Corpus Christi 2018

Today was the Feast of Corpus Christi- the body of Christ!  We were blessed to take part in the Mass, Eucharistic Procession, and Benediction at Casa Maria convent.  Marc altar served, and Julia was a flower girl.  It was a beautiful, beautiful day.

 

When it was over the flower girls left their flowers on the altar by the tabernacle in the chapel.  All for you, Jesus.  

Sound, then, His praises higher still,
And come, ye angels, to our aid;
For this is God, the very God
Who hath both men and angels made!

Sweet Sacrament, we Thee adore!
Oh, make us love Thee more and more.

Oh, make us love Thee more and more.

Feast of Corpus Christi (the Body of Christ)

On Sunday we celebrated the Feast of Corpus Christi.  It's traditional to have a Eucharistic procession on this feast day that honors the Institution of the Eucharist.  We were blessed to be a part of the procession at our local convent, Casa Maria.  Julia was a flower girl, and Marc was an altar server.

Julia and her close friends-

A fun fact- last year on the Feast of Corpus Christi, Marc and Marky were in Regensburg, Germany, on the boys choir tour.  They saw a beautiful Corpus Christi procession there!

  I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die.  I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
 
 The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

   So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.  Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.  For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.   Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him.  As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me.  This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.”   John 6:48-58