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K.T.B.	Sunday, 10. June 2007, 19:18
Posts: 298 Group: Members Member #72 Joined: March 30, 2007	John Sweeney May 24 2007, 08:36 PM Just as I arrived in South Wales some 28 years ago, the new Archbishop ( Aloysius Ward, recently deceased) stopped the traditional Corpus Christi parade through the streets of Cardiff. His view, fiercely contested, was that this parade had been born in times when Catholics were downtrodden and had become a coat trailing exercise of defiance rather than a religious testament. He changed the celebration into a gathering with Mass at local stadia ( Arms Park etc) and I attended a few. It never really caught on though. John I was chatting to an aged Aunt from Cardiff the other week. She still remembers being a "strewer" of flowers in her Parish's Corpus Christi procession as a little girl and the sense of honour of being asked to do this. :) For the second year running our Parish will be holding a Corpus Christi procession next week in the grounds of the church, followed by tea and biccies in the presbytry garden. Corpus Christi happens to be our parish feast day. The children who made their First Holy Communion today will have a big part in this, with the girls strewing flower petals and the boys carrying flags of different countries. They also get to wear their special First Holy Communion outfits for the occasion. Last year this occasion was very well attended. The atmosphere amongst the congregation was that of holiness and joy.


Corpus Christi · Our Lord's Feast Days