CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION - Our Lady of the Holy Rosary - St. Richard Church

June 11 at 9:30AM CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, honors Jesus Christ, REALLY, TRULY and SUBSTANTIALLY PRESENT under the appearances of bread and wine. Historical Background: In 1263 a German priest, Fr. Peter of Prague, made a pilgrimage to Rome. He stopped in Bolsena, Italy, to celebrate Mass at the Church of St. Christina. At the time he was having doubts about Jesus being truly present in the Blessed Sacrament. He was affected by the growing debate among certain theologians who, for the first time in the history of the Church, began introducing doubts about the Body and Blood of Christ being actually present in the consecrated bread and wine. In response to his doubt, when he recited the prayer of consecration as he celebrated the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, blood started seeping from the consecrated host and onto the altar and corporal. Fr. Peter reported this miracle to Pope Urban IV, who at the time was nearby in Orvieto. The pope sent delegates to investigate and ordered that host and blood-stained corporal be brought to Orvieto. The relics were then placed in the Cathedral of Orvieto, where they remain today. This Eucharistic Miracle confirmed the visions given to St. Juliana of Mont Cornillon in Belgium (1193-1258). St. Juliana was a nun and mystic who had a series of visions in which she was instructed by Our Lord to work to establish a liturgical feast for the Holy Eucharist, to which she had a great devotion. After many years of trying, she finally convinced the bishop, the future Pope Urban IV, to create this special feast in honor of the Blessed Sacrament, where none had existed before. Soon after her death, Pope Urban instituted Corpus Christi for the Universal Church and celebrated it for the first time in Orvieto in 1264, a year after the Eucharistic Miracle in Bolsena. This Solemnity has traditionally being celebrated with a procession as well as Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. See our schedule of activities for the day below. We invite you to honor our Lord present in the Blessed Sacrament by processing from the HRSR Church to Coral Reef Park gazebo on 77th Ave. and back to our church. Our Lady of the Holy Rosary - St. Richard 7500 SW 152nd Street Palmetto Bay, FL 33157 Phone (305) 233-8711 Thank you for your generosity for more information please follow the link below. https://membership.faithdirect.net/FL981 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daily Mass - Our Lady of the Holy Rosary - St. Richard 7500 SW 152nd Street Palmetto Bay, FL 33157 Phone (305) 233-8711 Thank you for your generosity for more information please follow the link below. https://membership.faithdirect.net/FL981 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------