We were discussing in the loft before mass, how none of have seen a procession since the late nineties when our long-time (38 years) pastor died. He did proper processions with canopy, incense and all else that went with it. No more.

We had procession directly following communion around the Church premises and return to the Church for benediction. We had Knights of Columbus who supported the cannopy that covered our priest and the monstrence. Our childrens bell choir accompanied as well. Most of the congregation who could make the small journey walked with us. It was very beautiful.

Our diocese seems to have one parish that does this every year. I have participated. It was pretty amazing!

Procession here today, beginning at the Catholic high school 1.5 miles away and coming to church for vespers. Three thurifers, two priests, two deacons, 15 altar servers, torches, crucifer, members of choir and schola, banners of parish committees, and everyone else who wanted to walk. Maybe 150 total showed up. I made a passable booklet with O salutaris for the beginning and then 6 long hymns and the litany of the Blessed Sacrament (which all, excepting O Salutaris) were repeated at least twice. It had been done in the past, but not over such a distance, nor in recent years due to weather. One of our priests is from Latin America and he really kindled the fire to make this happen, and had the experience of frequent processions to organize it well. People were thrilled, and I hope it happens again (though next time, I want a second cantor to relieve me on the trek.

LOL No, not because she was a bride!!! She recalled the processions for Corpus Christi occurring when she was a newly married woman. Boy, you guy sure don't miss anything! My mother will get a kick out of your comment, Arthur!

Several parishes in St. Louis including the cathedral had a Corpus Christi procession today.

We have some parishes that celebrate Corpus Christi on the Thursday (including the Eucharistic procession), and some that transfer to the Sunday. At one church in Dayton, they have mandalas out of dyed sawdust on the sidewalks around the church and part of the procession path - quite a sight!

Yep. Our chancery told us to stop attaching Benediction to Lenten Friday Stations of the Cross for that very reason, even though we had done it that way for at least 50 years. Stations are a devotion and the reasoning was that we were subordinating a liturgy to a devotion.

It was 108 degrees yesterday, so our procession (as per usual due to our climate) was indoors.

Thank you for the distinction between devotion and liturgy. That's one reason why I like this site, you can learn so much (although it's occasionally more than you really wanted to know!)

This year we were blessed to celebrate an EF Corpus Christi Missa Cantata on Thursday at St. Mary's Church in Roslyn Harbor, although the rain kept our procession indoors. We also celebrated the EF External Solemnity of Corpus Christi on Sunday at St. John's Chapel in Queens with Procession and Triple Benediction on the cemetery grounds. Pretty amazing to sing 24 verses of Lauda Sion twice in a week.

Thank you for this thread. Just wondering: Is indoor Eucharistic Procession permitted in the EF but not in the OF?

O.F. only since 1971.

My sincere condolences

I enjoyed being a visitor in two parishes for Corpus Christi: morning Mass followed by a 4km procession with several stops; I was limping way at the back, so didn't get to see much detail but thoroughly enjoyed the experience. In the evening I went to a friends' parish in another town, arriving late, and stayed for the rest of Mass and another 4km of procession. This one made delightful by a marching band that included a very wee boy on snare drum, keeping up with the older kids. Adults took care of the brass instruments. They had a repertory of two tunes, but played them very well.

In both processions recitation of the rosary alternated with singing old hymns (both parishes are EF.)

We have had day after day of rain and severe storms. No procession this year.

There's an Italian tradition of Holy Week bands. Somewhere I have a recording of some of the repertoire, which consists of incredibly slow funeral marches.

I went to three Corpus Christi masses this year: one on the day proper and two were Procrastinated Feasts External Solemnities.

CC 1
St. Joan of Arc, Kokomo
-Was scheduled for 530, but Father decided that he'd arrive an hour and a half late (even though he later admitted that he saw in our reminder email what the correct time was).
PROCESSIONAL: Isaac, "O Food of Exiles Lowly"
Mass II, except for Gloria (which was Ambrosian)
Credo I
Full Propers
Full Sequence
OFFERTORY MOTET: Chant, Ave Verum Corpus
COMMUNION MOTET: Portuguese Ice Cream Truck, Ecce Panis Angelorum
EXPOSITION: Duguet, O Salutaris Hostia
PROCESSION - Booklet (Pange Lingua, Adoro Te Devote, Ubi Caritas, “O
Food of Exiles Lowly”, “Hail True Victim, Light and Life”, “O Lord I Am
Not Worthy”, “Soul of My Savior”, Salve Regina, Christus Vincit)
BENEDICTION: Chant, Tantum Ergo
RECESSIONAL: GROSSER GOTT "Holy God, We Praise Thy Name"

In addition to the late start time, the procession for this mass had to be the longest I've ever experienced - nearly a mile and a half. And it would've been longer if the altar servers hadn't decided to cut through the grass in order to save time, God bless them. In addition to which, I find out that one of our choir members has quit because another lectured her on using the "d" word during practice; on top of which, one of the choir members tells me afterwards that he won't be singing with us anymore unless we start singing "melodious masses" that were placed on Montani's Black List. All in all, a day full of stress and bereft of sleep.

CC2
St. Joseph, Greenwood
10 am
PROCESSIONAL: Faber, "Jesus My Lord My God My All"
ORDINARY: VII
CREDO: I
PROPERS: Full
OFFERTORY: Schubert, Salve Regina
COMMUNION:
1. Byrd, Ave Verum (for the umpteenth time . . .)
2. Chant, Anima Christi
Exposition and Benediction same as above (except Werner O Salutaris.) Processional used music packet that was later discovered to be for Christ the King: (To Jesus Christ Our Sovereign King, O God Almighty Father, To Jesus Heart All Burning, Holy God We Praise Thy Name, something by St. Alphonsus Ligouri I can't remember)
POST BENEDICTION:
-Chant, Adoremus in Aeternum (either mode 1 or 6, we couldn't make up our minds . . .)
-ANIMA CHRISTI, "Soul of My Savior"

Our parish choir really needs to update its processional booklets. And why on earth didn't the editors of the new SSPX hymnal take the time to review their harmonizations? They're almost as bad as the first edition!!!

So, after a short break involving pizza, Rambo movies, and Howard the Duck, I head further south for

CC3
St. Mary's, North Vernon
6 pm
PROCESSIONAL: Holst, "O Christ, the World's Salvation" (mirabile cantu, a text for JUPITER which isn't ridiculous)
ORDINARY: IX
CREDO: III
PROPERS: Full Gregorian - with organ accompaniment! (Certainly provides a new dynamic to singing them, but enjoyable nonetheless.)
OFFERTORY MOTET: Remondi, O Sacrum Convivium (arr. Kwasniewski)
COMMUNION MOTET: Hungarian, Panis Angelicus
PROCESSION INSIDE CHURCH –Pange Lingua
PROCESSION TO FIRST ALTAR – FULDA "O Sacrament Most Holy" / Taize, Adoramus Te
PROCESSION TO SECOND ALTAR –SWEET SACRAMENT "Jesus My Lord, My God, My All"
PROCESSION TO FINAL ALTAR –chant, Christus Vincit
HYMN AT CLOSE OF BENEDICTION – Allegri, Adoremus in Aeternum (arr. Proulx)

I was loathe to attend this mass, except for the fact that it was celebrated by an old friend of mine, Fr. Jeremiah Byrd, a gifted musician in his own right, as well as the seminarians of Brute Seminary, a thoroughly orthodox bunch who do this sort of thing on the fly. Their choir was directed by a young organ virtuosa, Miss Courtney Seiwert. (Her choir is not new to chant - apparently they have been singing from the Graduale for their English masses on a regular basis. This is our future, folks.)

This mass did not disappoint. An excellent sermon by Father, focusing on St. Tarcisus. Choir of fifteen or so, mostly young adults, a dozen servers with incense, banners, and Knights of Columbus in full regalia, Two priests sitting in choir, and three outdoor altars, followed by handsome repast of sandwiches, salads, alcoholic beverages, and cookies shaped like the Blessed Sacrament. (Eyebrow-raising, but cute.)

The one caveat was that this mass ended up taking THREE HOURS LONG. And Yours Truly, having to drive back that evening to work third shift, made his merry drive north, stopping at a rest area in order to catch a brief nap before going in - only to find when he wakes up that his car won't start. So he has to call in and have his vehicle towed that next morning after sleeping in the back seat the rest of the night.

Moral of the Story, Folks? Three Corpus Christi Masses in one year is a bad idea - and Friends don't let Friends celebrate External Solemnities.

Thank you for this thread. Just wondering: Is indoor Eucharistic Procession permitted in the EF but not in the OF?

Technically, there was a response of the CDW in 1975 that frowned on indoor processions, which are not foreseen in the rubrics of Holy Communion and the Worship of the Eucharist outside of Mass [for that matter, I don't think the old Rituale Romanum speaks of indoor processions either].

Interestingly, however, the Enchiridion Indulgentiarum in speaking of the indulgence for the Eucharistic Procession mentions indoor processions (it says: "sive introrsum in sacris aedibus sive extra ductae").