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Planning a Corpus Christi Procession

Veronica Brandt · May 28, 2016

YDNEY, AUSTRALIA has held a big Eucharistic Procession for the feast of Corpus Christi each year since 2006. This year the big plans were scuttled and parishes encouraged to hold their own parish processions.

Our little Latin Mass out on the western edge of Sydney has held a smaller procession each year joining with the neighbouring parish. This year the task of preparing a booklet fell to me so here I present :

PDF Booklet – 12 pages A5 Exposition, Procession, Rosary, Benediction.

I have made a GitHub repository for the little booklet for anyone else using LaTeX and gregorio to make booklets.

Maternal Heart of Mary’s Liturgical Booklets include a booklet for the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost with Procession. They begin with Salve Festa Dies and end with Ave Verum after the Blessed Sacrament is reposed.

It’s interesting to see into how other choirs and parishes approach a Eucharistic Procession – it’s a shame they are usually all on at the same time so you can’t experience more than one each year – especially when you’re involved.

Another sidetrack is looking at Beautiful Processional Canopies – amazingly based in Australia.

NOTES FROM THIS ARTICLE:

* Photo credits: By Fennec. (Own work.) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons: Blessed Sacrament procession, First Annual Southeastern Eucharistic Congress, Charlotte, North Carolina – 20050924-01

Opinions by blog authors do not necessarily represent the views of Corpus Christi Watershed.

About Veronica Brandt

Veronica Brandt holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering. She lives near Sydney, Australia, with her husband and six children.—(Read full biography).

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