The Diocese of Corpus Christi will unveil cathedral renovations on June 4.

The new CareOregon Grand Floral Starlight Parade wasn’t the only procession to move through Portland’s streets this weekend. While marching bands, dancers, horses and elaborate floats marked the Rose Festival’s pinnacle event Saturday,

Hundreds of worshippers gathered in Bavaria on 4 June for Seehausen's traditional Corpus Christi lake procession. The event, held annually since 1935, combines religious devotion with local heritage on the waters of Staffelsee.

In an outpouring of spiritual renewal, a long line of worshippers walked in procession along Mahantongo Street Sunday afternoon. The procession marked the Feast of Corpus Christi, or body and blood of Christ,

The fact that the Church celebrates the solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ makes good sense, given the Eucharist's centrality in the life of the Church, neatly described by the Catechism of the Catholic Church as the "sum and summary of our faith" (No.

The solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (also known as the feast of Corpus Christi) is observed on Sunday, June 7 this year. This celebration began several hundred years ago, at the behest of St.

Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Pineda named Corpus Christi Bay on the Catholic Feast of Corpus Christi in June 1519.

"Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood ...

Poland's Roman Catholic Church observes the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ on Thursday, with processions of the faithful winding through streets nationwide in one of the liturgical calendar's most visible public celebrations.