Embracing the Eucharistic Procession: Celebrating Corpus Christi

TODAY IS THE DAY. Corpus Christi. The solemnity of the most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. And one of the most beautiful things to witness in this life is the Eucharistic procession, when the people of God, lead by the Christ himself present in the host, flood the streets where those who don't dare to approach Jesus themselves can encounter Him coming to visit them. Where us, the imperfect ones, led by the Most Perfect One, perfectly good, perfectly loving, perfectly just, perfectly self-sacrificing and forgiving, we march towards His kingdom, since ,,where he's going we know the way" for He Himself is the way, the truth and the life. Eucharistic procession is about the longing for paradise and about the union with all the angels and saints, all the members of Chris's body - yesterday, today and tomorrow. What a blessing it is to walk the streets free in our worship, with no need to hide, without persecution following the trail of Christ's glory, sweeping every fiber of being. Today we are the ones who get to carry His body in our bodies, to follow His body with our bodies, while on this earth. Let alone the day like today, when the whole creation seems to worship God with all its strength and the entire town is soaked in the sweet aroma of blossoming peonies. The earth is full of God's glory and today Christ steps down from all the tabernacles of the world and being the source and summit of our faith, carries that living waters over all of creation and all of His children scattered throughout the world. There's nothing quite like the fulfillment of Jesus' promise to be with us always even unto the end of the world, humbly, in a piece of bread and a drop of wine, waiting for everyone, who has been born and who is yet to be born, so that the stream of living waters continue to flow until we see the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven. He, the Living Bread remains every day, in all the tabernacles of the earth, waiting for someone to come feed on Him and today we give thanks for that Daily Bread, bleeding from God himself, the God who "has loved us with a human heart".