Brooklyn’s Catholic churches celebrate Feast of Corpus Christi
Catholics all over Brooklyn marked the Feast of Corpus Christi with masses, processions, and benedictions on June 2 celebrating one of bedrock beliefs of the church – that the Eucharist distributed during Communion is the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
Corpus Christi is Latin for “Body of Christ.”
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.