How Corpus Christi feast celebration looks in your country?
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Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan
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« on: May 26, 2016, 05:57:30 AM »

I wonder how it looks like in different countries, especially in those where protestants dominate by population but also culturally or politically.

And some bonus:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itmypaDb4fk

1945, Poland, Corpus Christi processions
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« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2016, 07:42:40 AM »

Don't think we do it here in 'Murica.
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« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2016, 09:44:29 AM »

Catholic processions were banned in the Netherlands until 1989 (!), except for places where they had already been legal in 1848.
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« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2016, 09:47:37 AM »

Here it's basically a day off, some people go to church and I cleaned my apartment and posted on Atlas.
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« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2016, 10:42:38 AM »

I have never seen these celebrations sadly. I'd love for them to return to the Mid-Atlantic.
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« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2016, 10:58:13 AM »

It came from nowhere to become arguably the biggest Christian festival in late Mediaeval England before returning just as suddenly to obscurity.
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« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2016, 12:42:05 PM »

Never heard of it, though admittedly, Mormons don't do most of those festivals.
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« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2016, 12:21:48 AM »

Catholic processions were banned in the Netherlands until 1989 (!), except for places where they had already been legal in 1848.
This is one of the most Dutch history facts ever.

And yeah, nothing special in Austria really, lots of people take an extra day off to get a long weekend.
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« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2016, 12:50:47 AM »

It came from nowhere to become arguably the biggest Christian festival in late Mediaeval England before returning just as suddenly to obscurity.

Did it return to obscurity during Henry VIII's reign or before?
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« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2016, 06:12:28 AM »

Catholic processions were banned in the Netherlands until 1989 (!), except for places where they had already been legal in 1848.
This is one of the most Dutch history facts ever.

And yeah, nothing special in Austria really, lots of people take an extra day off to get a long weekend.


That is kinda sad. Fortunately in Poland Corpus Christi is state holiday.
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« Reply #10 on: May 29, 2016, 09:43:03 AM »

Here in Madison it looks almost the same as every other Sunday Mass. The Cathedral has a short Eucharistic procession and the laity are permitted to receive the precious blood (which the Diocese of Madison doesn't normally permit) but otherwise it's the same as usual.

Back in Cleveland the parish I went to had a fairly long Eucharistic procession after Mass, but nothing super ornate. Their really big procession was always the Feast of the Assumption.
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« Reply #11 on: May 29, 2016, 11:13:04 AM »

We haven't done it around here since my grandmother was growing up. We celebrate the May Crowning though.
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« Reply #12 on: May 30, 2016, 01:28:04 PM »

Doesn't make much sense to me.  There already is Maundy Thursday for the institution of communion, and the Thursday after Trinity Sunday is an entirely arbitrary day.  If one were to have a post-Easter celebration of communion, then perhaps the catch of the 153 fishes would make sense, if it had its own feast day.
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« Reply #13 on: May 30, 2016, 04:12:57 PM »

Doesn't make much sense to me.  There already is Maundy Thursday for the institution of communion, and the Thursday after Trinity Sunday is an entirely arbitrary day.  If one were to have a post-Easter celebration of communion, then perhaps the catch of the 153 fishes would make sense, if it had its own feast day.

Juliana of Liège specifically wanted a Eucharistic feast day outside of Lent, and having a Eucharistic feast day without the extremely wide, almost scattershot focus of Maundy Thursday (the institution of the Eucharist, the agony in the garden, the washing of the Apostles' feet...) was Urban IV's main stated reason for instituting Corpus Christi.
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« Reply #14 on: June 02, 2016, 09:45:55 PM »

Doesn't make much sense to me.  There already is Maundy Thursday for the institution of communion, and the Thursday after Trinity Sunday is an entirely arbitrary day.  If one were to have a post-Easter celebration of communion, then perhaps the catch of the 153 fishes would make sense, if it had its own feast day.

Juliana of Liège specifically wanted a Eucharistic feast day outside of Lent, and having a Eucharistic feast day without the extremely wide, almost scattershot focus of Maundy Thursday (the institution of the Eucharist, the agony in the garden, the washing of the Apostles' feet...) was Urban IV's main stated reason for instituting Corpus Christi.

I get that, but the day is entirely arbitrary which is no doubt one reason why aside from the Anglican Communion, no one other than Latin Catholics celebrates it.  It is distinctively a Catholic feast, not a Christian one.  If one really wants to try to tie it into the calendar, one could place a feast for the catch of the 153 fishes 153 days after the Crucifixion, which would be the 15th Thursday of Pentecost and always exactly five months after Good Friday.

(Yes, I know traditionally, Ascension is usually said to be the last time Jesus appeared on Earth, but Luke-Acts which contains the Ascension story also specifies that the Apostles remained in Jerusalem all the time until the Ascension, which happens to contradict Matthew which places the receipt of the Great Commission in Galilee. John is in agreement with Matthew and can be in agreement with Luke-Acts if one has the catch of fishes happen after the Ascension in Luke-Acts. Tho frankly, I fail to see how a literalist inerrant interpretation of the Bible can resolve the discrepancy between Matthew and Luke-Acts.)
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« Reply #15 on: June 02, 2016, 09:49:32 PM »

Never heard of it, and I live in the most Catholic state, and I have two grandparents who are children of Polish-Catholic immigrants
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