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Sunday, June 6, 2010

TODAY IS CORPUS CHRISTI IN THE ORDINARY CALENDAR, MORE OF LAST YEAR'S CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION IN MACON, GA!

Yes, it was almost 100 degrees outside last year with about 100% humidity, but the soldiers of Christ that we are, we went into the heat of battle to process with our Eucharistic Lord around the premises of our wonderful neighborhood. No one died of heat stroke! The heat and humidity though are not the reasons why we are not having the Corpus Christi Procession this year. Rather it's because many of my key organizers are away on vacation and we have the 2:00 PM monthly Extraordinary Mass today. I hope we can have the procession next year, but it will be even later in June and more than likely 150 degrees outside with a million% humidity and Macon will have evacuated to the Gulf Coast if the beaches are still there, which we are praying they will be and the livelihood of those poor people restored and sea and land life prospering!

CLICK ON ANY IMAGES ONCE OR TWICE AND THE IMAGE WILL BLOW UP BEAUTIFULLY AND NO GOGGLES NECESSARY. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGES THOUGH.

The spires of our magnificent church:

More of the church in the background:

The canopy was in a box in our sacristy for about the past 50 years! When I opened the box I was clueless about what this material was until we spread it out on the floor and realized it was the canopy for Eucharistic Processions and despite the dead roaches and being in a box for over 50 years it was in remarkable good condition. We had it cleaned and purchased new poles and used it for the first time last year. I believe the Jesuits were the ones who acquired this canopy:





3 comments:

Anonymous said...

For more reason there was none in Augusta this year either. Bummer.

Templar said...

I honestly remember having the thought about the irony of the canopy being from the Jesuits during the Procession. The Jesuits that built Saint Joseph were, of course, a different breed of Jesuit than your average today. However, I'm sure many of the old order are in the Church Triumphant now, and walked beside us that day. On a related note, I read elsewhere that many of the new generation of Jesuits are fine Orthodox young men, especially here in the United States. Pray that the Society of Jesus would return to it's roots. They would make a fearsome ally in the Pope's Restoration of our Catholic identity and Holy Mother Church.

Anonymous said...

Beautiful!