St. Mary’s Catholic Church and Sacred Heart Catholic Church will once again host the community\u2019s historic Corpus Christi Procession on Sunday, June 7, at 2:00 PM, marking the 181st consecutive year of this cherished Catholic tradition.<\/p>\n
The procession honors the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist and continues one of the region\u2019s longest-standing religious traditions. The large fabric canopy used to shelter the Monstrance \u2014 which enthrones Christ\u2019s Real Presence and is carried by the priest from altar to altar \u2014 dates back to the late 1800s and remains an important symbol of the devotion and history surrounding the event.<\/p>\n
The procession will begin inside St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Church before moving to an outdoor altar erected on the lower convent yard near the St. Walburga hillside shrine. Participants will then continue in prayerful procession down Church Street to Center Street and onward to Sacred Heart Catholic Church.<\/p>\n
Participating in this year\u2019s procession will be 4th Degree Knights of Columbus from Ridgway, Kersey and St. Marys, altar servers, First Communicants, permanent deacons, and priests from local parishes throughout the area.<\/p>\n
Members of the public are warmly invited to attend and witness this beautiful expression of Catholic faith, prayer, and tradition that has united generations of the faithful for more than 180 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Mary’s Catholic Church and Sacred Heart Catholic Church will once again host the community\u2019s historic Corpus Christi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[18721,116446,116453,17124,116450,116444,116445,116441,116443,116449,116442,7757,116451,116448,155,157,156,116037,115425,116454,116439,116447,115658,116438,116452,116440,116437,6697],"class_list":["post-325619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-altar","tag-anglican-liturgy","tag-anglicanism","tag-catholic-church","tag-catholic-devotions","tag-catholic-liturgy","tag-catholicism","tag-christian-denominational-families","tag-christian-practices","tag-christian-prayer","tag-christian-worship-and-liturgy","tag-christianity","tag-christianity-and-alcohol","tag-christianity-and-bread","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-eucharist","tag-feast-of-corpus-christi","tag-lutheran-liturgy-and-worship","tag-mass-in-the-catholic-church","tag-order-of-mass","tag-procession","tag-real-presence-of-christ-in-the-eucharist","tag-religious-rituals","tag-sacraments","tag-sacred-heart","tag-worship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}