(OLDENBURG, Ind.) \u2013 A local church continued their longtime Corpus Christi tradition while 3 other parishes held their inaugural event on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Feast of Corpus Christi is a global Catholic event that celebrates the presence of Christ in the Eucharist.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Holy Family Church in Oldenburg hosted the first Corpus Christi procession in 1846.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Sunday, parishioners walked out of the church to continue that tradition for the 180th consecutive year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The solemn procession stopped by various locations including the cemetery chapel, through the woods to another chapel, Oldenburg Academy, the Knights of St. John Hall, Oldenburg Town Hall and back to the church.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The procession is led by the Cross, flags, altar servers, and young children who strew flower petals along the path, immediately followed by the canopy under which the Blessed Sacrament is carried.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Here are some photos that were taken by Katie Rauch:<\/p>\n
Three churches hold inaugural multi-county procession<\/p>\n
Drivers in Ripley and Decatur County may have noticed a long vehicle procession on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Osgood, St. Maurice in Napoleon and Immaculate Conception in Millhousen held their first-ever Corpus Christi Procession.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It was led by a fire truck and the first vehicle featured a decorated trailer that had Fr. Matthew Binu and servers on it. There were approximately 50 cars following behind.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Each stop featured a brief ceremony in the churches and the Millhousen visit was followed up with a community luncheon.<\/p>\n
Here are some photos and video of the procession:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(OLDENBURG, Ind.) \u2013 A local church continued their longtime Corpus Christi tradition while 3 other parishes held their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-326821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326821","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=326821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}