Happy Feast of Corpus Christi! It is a wonderful privilege to receive the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ! I have fond memories of my 1st Holy Communion!
My favorite memory of The Feast of Corpus Christi is from the year 2000! I was in Rome that summer with the community I was in and Corpus Christi fell a little later in June. The Mass for Corpus Christi was celebrated outside of St. John Latern by Pope John Paul II with a Eucharistic Procession after to St. Mary Major with Benediction! What wonderful memories of that Mass and procession!
I will end by posting the Gospel for Corpus Christi:
GospelMK 14:12-16, 22-26
On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples said to him,
“Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
He sent two of his disciples and said to them,
“Go into the city and a man will meet you, carrying a jar of water.
Follow him.
Wherever he enters, say to the master of the house,
‘The Teacher says, “Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”‘
Then he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Make the preparations for us there.”
The disciples then went off, entered the city, and found it just as he had told them;
and they prepared the Passover.
While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing,
broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is my body.”
Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it.
He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant,
which will be shed for many.
Amen, I say to you,
I shall not drink again the fruit of the vine
until the day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.”
Then, after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.