Each year, stretching back to the Middle Ages, on the Thursday following Trinity Sunday we joyfully honour the Eucharistic Lord with Masses, hymns and lavish processions through the streets and byways. This is the tradition of the feast of Corpus Christi, often transferred now to the following Sunday. The practice of processions with the Blessed Sacrament is reviving, especially as younger priests and lay people rediscover the Catholic patrimony of their forebears with gratitude and wonder.
Speaking of wonder, here is a too brief taste of the praise of the feast of Corpus Christi by Fr Frederick William Faber, founder of the London Oratory, in his Blessed Sacrament; or The Works And Ways Of God (1855). Would that we could recover this fervour and delight:
