Attributable Thursday Corpus Christi is one of the main and most solemn holidays celebrated by the Catholic Church. In our country, the ceremony celebrated on the last Thursday after the octave of Pentecost, it is therefore a movable feast.
Corpus Christi is a feast in honor of the Blessed Sacrament, the main point of the procession.
Referring to the feast of Corpus Christi, Cardinal. Nycz said that it is related to the Eucharist, whose cult has many dimensions. “The most important is the celebration of the Eucharist, which takes place every day and every Sunday and it is being done in churches – wherever it is exercised in the Most Blessed Sacrament and reception of Holy Communion.” – Said the hierarch.
An important dimension of the Eucharist outside the church, is – as pointed out by Metropolitan of Warsaw – its public dimension. “Procession of the Blessed Sacrament, which goes beyond the walls of the church, is aimed to be publicly honor the Blessed Sacrament in the monstrance carried through the streets of cities and rural roads. Corpus Christi procession is a public profession of faith,” – said the Cardinal. Nycz.
Polish Episcopate spokesman Father. Paul Rytel-Andrianik pointed out that this year the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ directs our thoughts to Legnica, where the events took place having signs of the Eucharistic miracle. “They are strengthening our faith, because Corpus Christi is a feast was established on the basis of the Eucharistic miracle” – Advocate KEP. He recalled, however, that the Italian Bols in 1263., During the celebration of Mass. Priest in doubt in the faith he saw drops of blood on the corporal. To date, the evidence can be seen in the cathedral of Orvieto.
In Poland Corpus Christi is a day off from work. This feast obliging Catholics to participate in the day in the Holy Mass.
Memorial establishment of the Blessed Sacrament Church exercises properly on Holy Thursday, however – as it is for Catholics day already commemorating the Passion of Christ – from the thirteenth century. Celebrated a separate feast of Corpus Christi.
the immediate cause of the establishment of Corpus Christi were revelations Julianna Cornillon with France, which in 1209. had a clear view of the moon outlined with a dark stain. View, these have been interpreted as due to lack of religious holidays day dedicated to the Blessed Sacrament.
Under the influence of these visions Bishop Robert in 1246. He instituted a feast for the diocese of Liege. In 1252. It has been extended to Germania. In 1264. Pope Urban IV bull “Transiturus” instituted the feast of Corpus Christi to the whole Church. This happened year after the miracle of the Eucharist in the Bolsa – the host began to bleed in the hands of a priest doubting the transubstantiation (transformation of bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ). Corporal, which fell drops of blood, is stored in the cathedral of Orvieto.
The date of the celebration of Corpus Christi was set Thursday in the octave of the Most Holy Trinity. With the death of Pope Urban IV’s bull in this case has not been announced. He did this until Pope John XXII in 1317.
The first procession on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi took place in the years 1265 to 1275 in Cologne, Germany. They are carried when they cross the Blessed Sacrament. At the end of the fifteenth century. Processions were already common in Germany, England, France, northern Italy and Poland. They built four altars as stations processional. In a solemn procession with the singing was attended by clergy, guilds, brotherhoods, church, school and multitudes of the faithful.
At the head of the procession is always carried the monstrance with the Blessed Sacrament. The procession stops at four altars in turn. Altars there are so many, how many were evangelists. At each stop they are read passages from one Gospel, and so in turn – Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
The first celebration of the feast of Corpus Christi in Poland introduced in the diocese of Krakow in 1320. Bishop Nanker. Already in the fourteenth century. Processions were held in Plock. In the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the greatest shrine of the cult of Corpus Christi in our country was the Poznan church of Corpus Christi.
In Poland before the partitions in the procession of the capital, a priest carrying the monstrance with the Blessed Sacrament sustained the king together with the highest state dignitaries. Participation of the faithful in the procession was connected with the manifestation of national feeling.
During the Second Republic Corpus Christi processions in Warsaw were extremely solemnly celebrated. In the first years after the war (1945-1948) in Warsaw Primate procession accompanied by representatives of the communist authorities, wishing in this way to gain public recognition.
Plenary Conference of the Polish Episcopate 17 February 1967. Changed rites Corpus Christi procession entering in Poland a new prayer at each of the four altars and the reading of the four Gospels, thematically related to the Eucharist.
This year’s central Corpus Christi procession in Warsaw set off around noon after mass. the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. John the Baptist passed the Cracow Suburb and will end on pl. Pilsudski, where he will deliver a homily Cardinal Metropolitan of Warsaw. Kazimierz Nycz. At the end, he will advise the blessing of the Blessed Sacrament to the city and throughout the country.
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