What is the Feast of Corpus Christi?
Corpus Christi means ‘
the body of Christ
’ in Latin.
The feast celebrates the transubstantiation of bread and wine
into the actual body of Christ during Mass.
How did it all start?
750 years ago a Bohemian priest doubted the
Eucharist was the Real Body and Blood of our Lord.
While celebrating Mass at Bolsena, a town north of Rome,
the bread of the Eucharist began to bleed.
The dripping blood formed the face of Jesus on the altar linen,
and the
priest came to believe
.
The next year, in 1264, Pope Urban IV instituted
the Feast of Corpus Christi to celebrate this miraculous event.
The blood-stained Corporal of Bolsena still
exists and is venerated
as a major relic in Orvieto Cathedral in central Italy.
Click on the link below for a 3 minute video explaining it all!
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WOW! WHAT A BRAVE NUN
WE HAVE IN
CINCINNATI
!!!
climbs a ladder and spray-paints windows
covered in cardboard with two inspiring slogans:
"God is love”
and
"The world will change when hearts change.”
Painting as protesters passed the sister's new building,
this video
generated over 360,000 views
and more than 5,000 shares.
How beautiful!
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