Today is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Happy feast day! All across the Diocese of Lansing, parishes have been celebrating with Corpus Christi processions that take Jesus Christ, truly present in the Holy Eucharist, into the streets of our villages, towns and cities.
This short film captures the sights and sounds at Saint Michael in Grand Ledge where the parish were holding their first Corpus Christi procession in recent memory.
"It [a Corpus Christi procession] is a physical way that we can express our desire that this Jesus, who we receive in the Eucharist in His Body and Blood, we now wish to share with the world," explained Father James Eisele, Pastor of Saint Michael.
"We take the presence of Jesus to our homes, to our schools, our places of work, our communities, and by our words and our actions we desire to be Eucharist for others."
The Saint Michael procession stopped at four points along the route -- north, south, east and west -- to pray for Christ's blessing upon those within their parish bounds.
On each occasion those in attendance stopped to pray, that “we may bring the presence of Christ” in that direction, “to our homes, our work, our schools, our communities.” Ave verum corpus!
