WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT CORPUS CHRISTI
WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT CORPUS CHRISTI 1. Originally a solemn day was observed on Thursdays (Maundy Thursday) to remind Catholics of the betrayal of Judas, Christ's agony and arrest and Peter's denial). On Maundy Thursday(also known as Holy Thursday , Covenant Thursday , Sheer Thursday , and Thursday of Mysteries , among other names), Catholics commemorated the Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles. 2. The feast of Corpus Christi is one of five occasions in the year on which a diocesan bishop is not to be away from his diocese unless for a grave and urgent reason. Insert: Pope Francis (Corpus Christi) 3. It was a humble nun in Belgium, Saint Juliana (1258), Prioress of Mont Cornillon, who first suggested and advocated a special feast in honor of the Blessed Sacrament to be celebrated on a day other than Maundy Thursday. From her sixteenth year she had often in her ...