Laudetur Iesus Christus! Tomorrow Thursday June 8 is the solemn feast of Corpus Christi, celebrated on the traditional day of the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. We share the Latin Mass schedule for tomorrow:
Feast of Corpus Christi – Thursday June 8
- 7pm – St. Thomas Aquinas parish
- 7pm – St. Ann parish (followed by 40 Hours devotion – see below)
40 Hours Devotion – Feast of Corpus Christi – Thursday June 8 – Saturday June 10
For the traditional feast day of Corpus Christi, St. Ann parish will be offering its annual Corpus Christi Latin Mass at 7pm, which will also commence the parish’s annual 40 Hours of Adoration devotion. To sign up for one of the 40 hours please use this signup page: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0544a8af29a4f94-40hours2#/
In a parish-wide e-mail Friday, Fr. Reid encouraged parishioners to fast ahead of the feast of Corpus Christi and 40 Hours devotion.
Fr. Jones’ 15th Priestly Ordination Anniversary
As noted in Sunday’s update, Fr. Reid celebrated his 19th anniversary as a priest early week. Today June 7, however, happens to be the 15th anniversary of Fr. Jones’ ordination. This evening’s 6pm Latin Mass at St. Ann will be offered in thanksgiving for this intention. Please consider offering prayers for Fr. Jones today. To see photos of his ordination please see the Catholic News Herald archives: https://issuu.com/catholicnewsherald/docs/cnh_issue_06_13_08
(FYI – Fr. Codd’s 11th anniversary as a priest was earlier this month on June 2 https://issuu.com/catholicnewsherald/docs/2012cnh6-8)
Dom Prosper Gueranger on the Feast of Corpus Christi
As the Church prepares to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi, we close with three excerpts from Gueranger’s entry this past Monday from The Liturgical Year:
All the mysteries we have celebrated up to this time were contained in the august Sacrament, which is the memorial, and, so to say, the compendium, of the wonderful things wrought in our favour by our Redeemer.[1] It is the reality of Christ’s presence under the sacramental species that enabled us to recognize in the sacred Host, at Christmas, the Child that was born unto us, in Passiontide, the Victim who redeemed us, and at Easter, the glorious conqueror of death. We could not celebrate all those admirable mysteries without the aid of the perpetual Sacrifice; neither could that Sacrifice be offered up, without renewing and repeating them.
Putting together all the means within our reach for honouring these blessed citizens of the heavenly court, we have chanted the grand Psalms of David, and hymns, and canticles, with all the varied formulas of the liturgy; but nothing that we could do towards celebrating their praise could be compared to the holy Sacrifice offered to the divine Majesty. It is in that Sacrifice that we entered into direct communication with them, according to the energetic term used by the Church in the Canon of the Mass (communicantes).
There is a sacred element, which gives a meaning to every feast that occurs during the year, and graces it with the beauty of its own divine splendour; that sacred element, which is the most holy Eucharist, had itself a right to a solemn festival, in keeping with the dignity of its divine object.
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