The Catholic Church celebrates in mass and prayer the Corpus Christi Festival whose official name is “Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ”.
Corpus Christi is celebrated 60 days after the Resurrection Sunday of Jesus Christ. This 2022 will be the Thursday June 16.
How is Corpus Christi celebrated?
The faithful go to church in order to adore the Blessed Sacrament. Processions and some particular touches that some countries give it are also common. at mass the Eucharist seal the call god party. In her Jesus is glorified symbolically with the wine and bread that represent the body and blood of Christ.
This homage to the Lord originated in the Last Supper, when Jesus invited his twelve disciples to share the table on Holy Thursday. In it, he invited his apostles to eat and drink from him in his commemoration.
The Corpus Christi Thursday is practiced eucharistic fast Y be confessed. People should refrain from eating any food or drink for at least one hour before the Holy Communion. Water and medicines are not included, so the sick are exempt.
This is how some countries celebrate Corpus Christi
This party has different features in different countries who carry it out:
- Spain: It is one of the countries with the greatest roots in this festival. In some localities they call the Eucharistic celebration as Sins and Dancers. Others include parades of floats, flower carpets in what they call the Battle of the Flowers. They also hold a Wheel Racewhich are painted tractor wheels.
- Colombia: They incorporate a parade of floats and comparsas, as well as musical contests and concerts.
- Mexico: the tradition of this day is known as the “Day of the Mules”. It is customary to sell and give away figures made of clay, palm or other materials in the shape of mules.
- Ecuador: celebrate the party Septenarywith masses in honor of Jesus Christ and the sale of sweets in the squares near the cathedral.
- Venezuela: perform the traditional dance of the Dancing Devils of Yare, in which the demons surrender to the Sacrament, symbolizing the victory of good against evil.
Corpus Christi Day Prayer
You go ahead Lord!
Because, knowing the humanity of man,
you know he needs your hand and your prints
so as not to lose the north of its existence.
That, without You, is doomed to disappointment and disenchantment
to lukewarmness, pessimism or confrontation.
Sales, on this day of Corpus Christi,
and pushed with the force or the secret of love.
Inject, Lord, a little of your blood into our world!
Because our bodies are weak
Because, the blood that runs through our veins,
In addition to being red and alive, we want it to be divine.
Give us a little of your Body, O Christ!
Because, at the tables of our life,
leftover bread that is baked in a simple oven
and we lack that other Bread that is gilded in divine love.
You go ahead, Lord!
You go out in custody and surrounded by my vassals.
It is us, Lord, your friends
those who, one day yes and another too,
we want to take you as the best treasure to the world.
Those who, wrapped in contradictions,
we are members of your Body
and announcers of your good and holy mysteries.
You go ahead, Lord!
Look at the patient who, from the roof of his suffering,
he shouts at you: have mercy on me!
Hold your gaze on the one who, dead while alive,
He asks you for a little hope in his walk.
Don’t stop blessing those who, opening their hearts,
They tell you that, among everything known,
You are the best and worthy of being adored.
You go ahead, Lord!
Thank you, Jesus, for sharing our haste
and offer us a little calm.
Thank you, Jesus, for not being indifferent to our lives
and fill us with your grace.
Thank you, Jesus, for contemplating our situation
and give us so many caresses with serene answers.
Thank you, oh Christ, because your Body and your Blood
redeems us, makes us strong, determined, brave, enthusiastic, committed
and makes us feel today, more than ever,
that it is worth walking and living with you.
Amen.