Eucharistic processions to be held across the country for Corpus Christi this weekend

A few hundred Catholics marched through the streets of Washington, D.C., to publicly pray and adore the body of Christ during a eucharistic procession on Saturday, May 20, 2023. / Credit: Joe Portolano/CNABoston, Mass., Jun 9, 2023 / 14:10 pm (CNA).Eucharist processions are being planned across the country this weekend in celebration of the solemnity of Corpus Christi, a more than 700-year-old feast day that commemorates the real presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.The processions occur as the Church in America enters its second phase of the U.S. bishops' National Eucharistic Revival, a three-year initiative by the prelates to inspire belief in the Eucharist following a 2019 Pew Research study that suggested only about one-third of U.S. Catholics believe the Church's teaching that the Eucharist is truly the body and blood of Jesus Christ.The second phase of the revival, the Year of Parish Revival, is meant to foster eucharistic devotion at the parish level.Below is a sam...

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