Catholics came together to celebrate Corpus Christi
The Roman Catholic Churches came together to honour the genuine presence of Jesus Christ's body (corpus) in the Eucharist.
Different parishes of the Roman Catholic Church came together to celebrate Corpus Christi at Empucukweni Secondary School.
The celebration was held on Sunday, June 11.
The members from the different parishes together with their priests shared in celebrating the important ceremony.
The reasons for the success and devotional importance of the feast of Corpus Christi are easy to understand if we stop to think about what it celebrates.
The Corpus Christi, or the Body of the Lord, more properly called Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, recalls precisely the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.
As we know, the Eucharist is for Catholics the ritual moment in which the bread and wine offered by the priest who celebrates the Mass become in all and for all the Body and Blood of Christ, through the work of the Holy Spirit.
In this miracle, which returns to being real at every celebration, the sacrifice of Jesus is renewed.
He’s offering Himself entirely to the apostles at the Last Supper and in general to those who followed him.
The Feast of Corpus Christi celebrates Jesus’ closeness to man, the highest and most significant moment of His human experience. For this region, the celebration that accompanies this festival often has a popular character and takes place with processions, processions in costume, sacred representations and other events that involve many people gathered.
Corpus Christi is one of the main celebrations of the liturgical year.
It is a mobile feast linked to Pentecost.
Corpus Christi falls on a Thursday of the second week after the Pentecost; that is the Thursday after the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.
For reasons related to the festival calendar, even if the festival remains on a Thursday, the celebration is moved to the following Sunday.
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