Thus Angels' Bread is made the Bread of humankind today: the Living Bread from heaven with imaginings does away: O wondrous gift indeed!
Pange, lingua, gloriosi Corporis mysterium, Sanguinisque pretiosi, quem in mundi pretium fructus ventris generosi Rex effudit Gentium. Sing, my tongue, The mystery of the glorious body, And of the precious Blood, Shed to save the world, By the King of the nations, The fruit of a noble womb. In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions.
Tantum ergo Sacramentum Veneremur cernui: Et antiquum documentum Novo cedat ritui: Praestet fides supplementum Sensuum defectui.
Down in adoration falling, Lo! Aquinas also wrote a powerful prayer for the festival, that encompasses many aspects of the doctrine of the Eucharist:. O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament left us a memorial of your Passion: grant, we implore you, that we may so venerate the sacred mysteries of your body and blood, as always to be conscious of the fruit of your redemption. The festival was inspired by the religious experience of St Juliana , a Belgian nun, who dreamed repeatedly of the Church under a full moon with a black spot.
According to legend, the dream was interpreted to her in a vision by Christ. The moon, she said, was the Church's calendar of festivals and the black spot was the lack of a festival to celebrate the holiest element of the Church - the Eucharist. Juliana shared this with her local bishop, who in issued a decree for such a festival to be celebrated in his territory. Before that there had been no universal festival to mark the sacrament of the Eucharist. In , the Council of Trent described the festival as a 'triumph over heresy'.
They meant by this that when Christians celebrated the festival they affirmed their belief in the doctrine of transubstantiation, and thus the victory of the Church over those heretics who denied that the consecrated wafer became the real body of Christ during the Mass. Corpus Christi is a festival that has been celebrated by many Christians, particularly the Catholic Church, in honor of the Eucharist since It is a moveable feast that is celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday or on the Sunday after Holy Trinity in some countries such as the United States.
Corpus Christi is primarily celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church but it is also included in the calendar of some Anglican churches. The feast was introduced from Belgium to England at some stage between and , according to various sources. In England before the Reformation, there was a famous procession in London on the day. Symbols that portray the event may include: an image of a host consecrated bread and chalice to depict the Holy Eucharist; an altar; and a ciborium, which is a chalice-like container used to store consecrated hosts of the sacrament of Eucharist, or the Holy Communion.
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Given the culture of the early 13th century, she felt there was nothing she could do about instituting such a feast. However, she had confided in two individuals, other than a few members of her monastery, about the visions — both of whom proved to be helpful in bringing its establishment to fruition. The young monk who served as St. Eventually their diocesan bishop approved the texts and authorized its celebration in his diocese in Juliana and one of her confidantes, was instrumental in bringing the feast beyond its provincial origins after St.
Eva had contacted Pope Urban IV with the request to celebrate the feast throughout the universal Church. He assigned papal theologian St. Thomas Aquinas to compose new liturgical texts for the feast. Many of the original texts for Corpus Christi composed by St. One of the key liturgical facets of Corpus Christi is its procession. Of course, processions have great biblical, liturgical and popular pietistic importance. In the Old Testament, think of the processions with the Ark of the Covenant, or the innumerable accounts of festal pilgrimage processions to Jerusalem — praising God with music and dance — of which the Psalms speak.
Or in the New Testament, think of the procession of Christ through those first Palm Sunday crowds who shouted his praises. Processions of the faithful enable Christians to give public witness to their faith, give glory to God, and they symbolize our earthly pilgrimage to the heavenly Jerusalem.
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