Generally Speaking: St. Patrick’s Church hosts Corpus Christi procession
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Bay Ridge commemorated the Holy Feast of Corpus Christi – the Solemnity of the body and blood of Jesus Christ – on June 6 with a somber procession on the streets near the church. A member of the clergy carries a gold-plated monstrance containing a Eucharistic consecrated host, and stops are made at small outdoor pop-up altars set on the sidewalks near the middle of each street. Here is where the priest incenses the monstrance, prays and reads from the Gospel.
Rev. Gerard Sauer, the pastor of St. Patrick’s, led the procession with musical accompaniment by pipers from Xaverian High School.
St. Patrick’s is the oldest Catholic Church in Southwest Brooklyn.