Celebrating Corpus Christi in North Georgia
An encouraging tale of a Corpus Christi procession in north Georgia - the first ever. Pastor Randy Mattox writes:
"This year we did our first Eucharistic procession. Since our church is just a block off the town square, I have been wanting to do one through the downtown area. This year our seminarian wanted to organize it, so he did and it was beautiful!
There is a great joy and thrill in honoring our Lord publicly in this way. I felt myself overwhelmed with emotion during communion time, with everyone receiving Jesus, uniting ourselves to Him and to one another, and then knowing that this most intimate moment would culminate in processing out of the church to proclaim to the town and the whole world that our Lord is with us, feeding us, loving us, strengthening us even now as we journey on toward Heaven! It was truly an overwhelming experience!"
During the actual procession, we prayed the litany of the Eucharist and made our trip around the block through the downtown area. It was a short trip this time, I am thinking next year will be longer!!! Nevertheless cars drove by, watching us, probably thinking, "what in the world are they doing?" I felt sorry for them that they didn't yet know what blessing was passing their way. Hopefully with more catechesis and evangelization they will one day. Hopefully they too will join us one day in proudly, humbly, thankfully, walking with Jesus through the streets of Ellijay on the feast of Corpus Christi."
Corpus Christi in fundie land. I know the seminarian who "organized it". He happens to be a blogger and a convert but since he hasn't written about it directly, I won't blow his cover. But I can only imagine what a joyful experience it was for him!
posted by Sherry W @ 4:18 PM
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1 Comments:
Thanks for your discretion, Sherry ... :) It was simply phenomenal! There is something so powerful -- and in my experience, always somewhat unexpected -- that happens with the Blessed Sacrament, whether Adoration, or Benediction, or a procession. [You know this for sure, of course!]. Even though i was busy in "organize mode" and throughout the procession was actually in front of the canopy, with the servers, at one point, I looked over and across the street saw a reflection in a shop window. It was so beautiful: all the people, the wonderful Knights, everyone chanting "... have mercy on us ... " and in the front, the Blessed Sacrament under that beautiful canopy designed by one of our parishioners... I glimpsed that in a glass, somewhat fuzzily, and immediately thought of St. Paul's famous lines from 1 Cor 13, "we see now darkly, as though through a glass." And isn't that what the Eucharist is? A foretaste of that heavenly reality, of blessed eternity, of a world that is set to rights, where every tear is wiped away?
Thanks for sharing our humble attempt to share Our Lord with our neighbors.
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