Thank you to photographer Alissa Drouillard for capturing these beautiful images, above and below, of Sunday's Corpus Christi procession through Ann Arbor upon the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, June 6. But why undertake a Corpus Christi procession in the first place? Father Kyle Shinseki SJ of Saint Mary Student parish in Ann Arbor now explains:
Our third annual Corpus Christi procession was a beautiful and moving witness to our faith in the Real Presence of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the most holy Eucharist.
We brought Jesus from Saint Mary Student Parish to the University of Michigan campus, into downtown Ann Arbor, and ending at Saint Thomas the Apostle, stopping to pray at several places along the way, including the Diag.
The procession also was a visible sign of our living communion in Christ as young and old from Saint Francis, Saint Thomas, and Saint Mary prayed together and sang hymns in Latin, English, and Spanish.
One young man who was lying under a tree as we processed by joined the procession and later explained to me how he was praying that Jesus would come to meet him. Thanks be to God his prayers were answered!
