Together with the parish community, we celebrated the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ - Corpus Christi (May 30) - with an evening Mass in Christ the King Church, at which Father Thomas was the homilist. The Mass was followed by a procession, in which it is tradition that the Blessed Sacrament is carried in a monstrance by a priest under a processional canopy, accompanied by banners and flags. The procession went around the convent church, through the courtyard of the boys’ boarding school to House St. Agnes and to the altar of the St. Francis Chapel. We then proceeded down Kloster Street to the main gate and again into Christ the King Church, where the solument conclusion with the Te Deum (Holy God we Praise Thy Name!) took place..
The participants from the parish and the convent were delighted with the good weather and the fact that, through this celebration and procession, they were able to express the connectedness between the parish and the convent. Together we are looking forward to July 12th of this year, when we will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the death of Father Gerhard Dall, the village pastor who was responsible for the establishment of the convent in Thuine.
