This Festival Divine

Corpus Christi, the 'festival divine,' stands among the great feasts of the Church's year, celebrating the astonishing mystery of Christ's presence in the Holy Eucharist.At the heart of its liturgy is the Lauda Sion, the great sequence composed by St Thomas Aquinas at the behest of Pope Urban IV. Rich in imagery, doctrine and devotion, its centuries-old verses proclaim the mystery of the Blessed S...