1. Solemnity of
The Most Holy Body and Blood
of Christ
Corpus Christi
"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; he who
eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will
raise him up at the last day." -- John 6:53, 54

2. • commemorates the
institution of the Eucharist.
• This feast day was instituted
in the late 13th century and
was known as Corpus
Christi.
• It was celebrated for a
century before becoming a
mandatory feast in 1312.
• Its purpose was to
encourage the faithful to
• The Solemnity of the Most give special honor to the
institution of the Holy
Holy Body and Blood of
Eucharist or Blessed
Christ is a parallel to Holy
Sacrament.
Thursday which

3. • The name was changed in
1970 from Corpus Christi to
The Solemnity of the Most
Holy Body and Blood of
Christ and it is usually
celebrated on the Sunday
following Trinity Sunday.
• Turning to the official
teaching of the Catholic
Church in the Catechism we
read.
• 1324 The Eucharist is
"source and summit of the
• works of the apostolate, are
Christian life." "The other
bound up with the Eucharist
sacraments, and indeed all
and are oriented toward it.
ecclesiastical ministries and

4. • For in the blessed Eucharist
is contained the whole
spiritual good of the
Church, namely Christ
himself (CCC 1324).
• It would be great to revive
the Corpus Christi
procession -- in your parish.
parish

5. • Pope Urban IV asked Saint Thomas Aquinas to write a hymn in
honor of the feast, he wrote Tantum Ergo which is the sound
you hear in the background.

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