{"id":330220,"date":"2026-06-10T05:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/330220\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T05:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:29:10","slug":"thousands-witness-corpus-christi-the-catholic-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/330220\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands witness Corpus Christi | The Catholic Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"St Kevin\u2019s Eastwood Parish Corpus Christi procession. Photo: Supplied.<\/p>\n

The Solemnity of the Most Holy and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) marked across Sydney last weekend with Eucharistic processions that brought Christ in the Blessed Sacrament into local streets as a public witness of faith.<\/p>\n

The largest was the annual procession between St Jerome\u2019s and St Charbel\u2019s Maronite parishes, where more than 60 men carried a specially constructed paso bearing a 1.8-metre monstrance, sourced from Mexico, through the streets after almost a year of planning and preparation.<\/p>\n

Organiser Norman Bejjani said the event was inspired by Sydney\u2019s successful bid to host the International Eucharistic Congress in 2028.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe are taking Christ back to the streets,\u201d he told The Catholic Weekly. \u201cWe want him to be the centre of our families, our homes and our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catholics from Maronite, Roman, Melkite, Ukrainian, Croatian and Chaldean communities joined hundreds of faithful in prayer, song and adoration.<\/p>\n

Bejjani said the procession was intended not only as a local event but as an encouragement to other parishes.<\/p>\n

\u201cHope is not found in the world. Hope has a name, and his name is Jesus Christ,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Similar Corpus Christi processions were held or planned at parishes including St Declan\u2019s at Penshurst, St Agnes\u2019 at Matraville, Holy Spirit at North Ryde, St Kevin\u2019s, at Eastwood, and St Catherine Labour\u00e9 at Gymea.<\/p>\n

Together they reflected a growing enthusiasm for public expressions of Eucharistic faith as Sydney prepares to welcome pilgrims from around the world for Eucharist28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Kevin\u2019s Eastwood Parish Corpus Christi procession. Photo: Supplied. The Solemnity of the Most Holy and Blood of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156,117864,3996],"class_list":["post-330220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-eucharistic-procession","tag-hero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330220","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=330220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}