The Corpus Christi Procession is an annual devotional exercise undertaken by the Catholic Church all over the world. It falls generally a week before the 1st Sunday of Advent, which, this year, is on 28 November 2021and which begins the Advent season leading to Christmas.
*Corpus Christi* is an expression in Latin which means *BODY OF CHRIST*, expressing the Church’s faith in the Holy Eucharist. The Procession is participated in by the Catholic Christians as a manifestation and public expression of their faith in the divine mystery of the Eucharist, which holds that Bread and Wine (grape juice) become the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, which is consumed as spiritual food to nourish the faith life of the people.
The Corpus Christi Procession took place today morning after the Holy Mass in the Cathedral Church Campus, in which the Bishop of Lucknow, Most Rev. Gerald Mathias carried the monstrance, in a decorated open Jeep, containing the Holy Eucharist and in which 450 people took part in the Procession with prayers and hymns.
At the end of the Procession the Benediction was imparted by the Bishop on the gathered assembly as a sign of divine protection over all the people.
