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Photo of Francis' first Corpus Christi, St. John Lateran Square, Rome, Italy, May-30-2013. Getty Images
Wanted: Has anyone at the Vatican seen the announcement of the celebration of the Solemnity of Corpus Christi?
If you have information, please send it to the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff.
Corpus Christi at the Vatican in the Francis era has been lowered to the point of making us wonder where it is. Until 2016, the original day on which it fell was respected, that is, a Thursday (60 days after Easter, Thursday following Holy Trinity Sunday), celebrated in St. John Lateran Square, followed by the procession. And from then on, little by little changes have been made until disappearing (the lavishness is changed, Francis stops participating in the procession, it is moved to Sunday, the place of the celebration is changed, even more in the last two years with the excuse of the pandemic), we will not repeat what we have already detailed a year ago on the same occasion.
When the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff announced last Saturday the liturgical celebrations that Francis will preside in the months of June and July, it is clear that neither for Jun-16-2022, the date on which the Solemnity originally falls, nor for Jun-19-2022, the following Sunday, the date to which it could presumably be moved, has no celebration presided by Francis been announced. Nor, as of today, does it appear in the calendar published by that office on its microsite on the Vatican website.
It would be quite useful for them to say openly that Francis is not going to celebrate this solemnity and not, as we are doing here now, let others deduce by subtraction of matter.
