Description
The Solemnity of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, usually known as Corpus Christi, was instituted by the Pope Urban IV in 1264 and it takes place sixty days after Easter. It is usually celebrated on a Thursday emphasizing the institution of the Eucharist, which was observed on Holy Thursday, at the Last Supper of Jesus with the Apostles, a memorial of His infinite Love towards Humanity.
In Lisbon, the Feast of Corpus Christi is enhanced by the Procession through some of the Downtown streets, during which the Blessed Sacrament is carried and held aloft in the middle of thousands of believers, in a demonstration of faith. From the 15th century onwards it assumes a wider significance and in the 17th century, it becomes the oldest and most attended of all the processions. Nowadays people from the whole Diocese of Lisbon take part in this Procession, that begins and ends at the Cathedral.
"Today we are the vast crowd that Jesus feeds with His Bread. We, too, try to follow Him, listen to Him, be one with Him and walk with Him, so that He might be with us as well" (as in Pope Francis’s homily at the Solemnity of Corpus Christy, 2013)
In Lisbon, the Feast of Corpus Christi is enhanced by the Procession through some of the Downtown streets, during which the Blessed Sacrament is carried and held aloft in the middle of thousands of believers, in a demonstration of faith. From the 15th century onwards it assumes a wider significance and in the 17th century, it becomes the oldest and most attended of all the processions. Nowadays people from the whole Diocese of Lisbon take part in this Procession, that begins and ends at the Cathedral.
"Today we are the vast crowd that Jesus feeds with His Bread. We, too, try to follow Him, listen to Him, be one with Him and walk with Him, so that He might be with us as well" (as in Pope Francis’s homily at the Solemnity of Corpus Christy, 2013)
11h30 - Mass at the Cathedral
13h00 - 16h00: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament (with Sacrament of Reconciliation)