POLAND: Corpus Christi /8 June /Cracow
Image:Halina Bednarz
Stanislaw Dziwisz, personal secertary of pope JPII
In Cracow, celbrated with arcybishop Stanislaw Dziwisz.
Cracow celebrating the 750th anniversary of Krakow's location and therefore the Corpus Christi was very splendid this year. It were present all rectors of Universities..
Corpus Christi (Latin for Body of Christ) is a Christian feast in honour of the Holy Eucharist. It was originally assigned to the Thursday following Trinity Sunday, thereby mirroring Holy Thursday, the Thursday of Holy Week, the day on which Christians commemorate The Last Supper of Jesus Christ and his apostles, seen as the first Holy Eucharist
The Feast of Corpus Christi, which is a moveable feast, is celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday or, in countries where it is not a Holy Day of Obligation, on the Sunday after Holy Trinity.
The main celebration is Holy Mass which ends with a procession in the surrounding streets. Processing beneath a canopy, the priest bears the Eucharist in a Monstrance, with two more parish activists propping up his elbows.
Procession
Marchers may include uniformed police, firemen, soldiers, veterans and scouts, folk-costumed youth, members of parish societies bearing religious banners, with rank and file parishioners following in behind..
Children in regional clothes - Krakowianki
Rektors of Univerities during mass
Children with flowers
Girls in First Holy Communion dresses strew the way with flower, as altarboys perfume the airs with incense and jangle altar-bells..
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