On Feast of Corpus Christi, St. Anthony Parish makes strides With One Heart

Laura Keener

Editor

St. Anthony Parish, Taylor Mill, made strides, June 22, in implementing two of its With One Heart parish pastoral plan priorities — creating a welcoming community by hosting cultural exchange events and increasing confidence in Church teaching — with a Eucharistic procession on the feast of Corpus Christi.

Thirty-three days earlier, the parish collectively began learning more about the Eucharist by reading the book “33 Days to Eucharistic Glory,” by Matthew Kelly and watching its companion videos. Then, on the feast of Corpus Christi, the parish, which has a large Guatemalan community as well as an Anglo community, held an intercultural Eucharistic procession with members of its men’s prayer group, women’s prayer group and Guatemalan community each designing and constructing sawdust carpets for the procession.

Visiting celebrant, Msgr. Gerald Reinersman, led the procession, which concluded with a consecration to the Eucharist. “The Eucharist is more than something we believe in or something we celebrate. The Eucharist is the Real Presence of Jesus Christ — body and blood, soul and divinity — that we have received. The sacrifice of Christ’s own love. It is the real presence of Christ that we are. It is what we become for one another,” said Msgr. Reinersman in his homily