Corpus Christi 2023 Photopost (Part 6)

We finally come to the last photopost of this year’s Corpus Christi series, with one final late entry sent in just yesterday. In this season when priestly ordinations are common, we have here a first Mass, an ordination anniversary, and a priest ordained in May; congratulations to all new priests, and be assured of the continued prayers of all our readers for your ministry.

Notwithstanding the painful necessity of paring down the larger albums, we reached a total of nearly 300 photos from 30 churches in fifteen American states and six other countries, several represented two or three times. I know we will all take this as yet another encouraging sign of the ongoing recovery of our authentic Catholic liturgical traditions - feliciter! As always, thanks to all those who sent these pictures in, contributing to the essential work of evangelizing through beauty.

St Bernard Abbey – Cullman, Alabama

First Mass of Fr Paschal Pautler OSB, who was ordained the previous day.

Tradition will always be for the young!

Chapel of St Maximilian Kolbe – Głodowo, Poland

Most Holy Trinity – Augusta, Georgia

St Mary’s Oratory – Wausau, Wisconsin

Mass on the feast of the Most Precious Blood, and the thirteenth anniversary of Canon Aaron Huberfeld’s priestly ordination.

Nat’l Shrine of Our Lady of Mt Carmel – Middletown, New York

The motherhouse of the Province of St Elias of the Carmelite Friars of the Ancient Observance; the celebrant, Fr Von Erick Maria Sandoval, O. Carm., was ordained on May 27th.

Our Lady of Mt Carmel (the old cathedral) – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Corpus Christi Procession presided over by H.E. Dom Orani João Tempesta, Cardinal Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro; the Blessed Sacrament is carried in the hands of the archbishop in a Baroque litter, probably from the 18th or 19th century, pulled and escorted by sailors of the Brazilian Navy.