...continuation Celebration Latin Catholic Church The feast of Corpus Christi is one of five occasions in the year on which a diocesan bishop is not to be away from his diocese unless for a grave and urgent reason. By tradition, Catholics take part in a procession through the streets of a neighborhood near their parish following mass and pray and sing. The Eucharist, known as the Blessed Sacrament, is placed in a monstrance and is held aloft by a member of the clergy during the procession. After the procession, parishioners return to the church where benediction usually takes place. When instituting the Year of Faith, Pope Benedict XVI declared that on Sunday, June 2, 2013 at 5 p.m. Rome time, the Pope would preside at an hour of Eucharistic Adoration in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, in communion with all bishops and with their local diocesan communities around the world. His successor, Pope Francis presided over the special Eucharistic adoration. On Thursday, 30 May 2013, Pope Francis celebrated Mass at the Basilica of St. John Lateran. Following Mass, he led the traditional candlelight Corpus Christi Procession on foot through the streets of Rome, from the Basilica of St John Lateran to the Basilica of St. Mary Major, just over a mile away. The monstrance with the Blessed Sacrament was carried on the lorry that Blessed John Paul II began using in 1994 when he could no longer walk the full mile. Anglicanism Corpus Christi is included in the calendar of a few Anglican churches, most notably the Church of England. The feast is also celebrated by some Anglo-Catholic parishes even in provinces of the Anglican Communion that do not officially include it in their calendars. McCauslands Order of Divine Service, the most commonly used ordo in the Anglican Church of Canada, provides lections for the day. In the Church of England it is known as The Day of Thanksgiving for the Institution of Holy Communion (Corpus Christi)and has the status of a Festival. Although its observance is optional, where kept, it is typically celebrated as a major holy day. Other churches Corpus Christi is also celebrated by the Old Catholic Church, the Liberal Catholic Church and by some Western Rite Orthodox Christians, and is commemorated in the liturgical calendars of the more Latinized Eastern Catholic Churches. The feast was retained in the calendars of the Lutheran Church up until about 1600, but continues to be celebrated by some Lutheran congregations. Folk celebrations In medieval times in many parts of Europe Corpus Christi was a time for the performance of mystery plays. in Catalonia it is celebrated with the tradition of the Dancing egg, with evidence from the 16th century. In the village of Castrillo de Murcia near Burgos, the celebration includes the practice of El Colacho(baby jumping). Date Corpus Christi is a moveable feast, celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday or, in countries where it is not a holy day of obligation, on the following Sunday. The earliest possible Thursday celebration falls on 21 May (as in 1818 and 2285), the latest on 24 June (as in 1943 and 2038). The Sunday celebrations occur three days later. The Thursday dates until 2022 are: *.30 May 2013 *.19 June 2014 *.4 June 2015 *.26 May 2016 *.15 June 2017 *.31 May 2018 *.20 June 2019 *.11 June 2020 *.3 June 2021 *.16 June 2022 Corpus Christi is a public holiday in some countries with a predominantly Catholic population including, amongst others, Austria, Brazil, Bolivia, parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Croatia, Dominican Republic, Haiti, East Timor, parts of Germany, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Panama, Peru, Poland, San Marino, parts of Spain and Switzerland, Grenada, Saint Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago.
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