Sydney’s annual Walk with Christ Eucharistic procession will this year be celebrated in November on the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. Source: The Catholic Weekly.
It places the city’s most popular and most public act of Eucharistic faith at the very summit of the Church’s year and on a feast the Church established precisely for an age like our own.
The Walk with Christ has previously been celebrated on the Feast of Corpus Christi in June.
Pope Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King in 1925 with the encyclical Quas Primas, written for a Europe unsettled by secularism, nationalism, and the belief that public life had outgrown its need for God.
“While the Feast of Corpus Christi goes back to Pope Urban IV and St Thomas Aquinas in 1264, the Feast of Christ the King is a relatively modern one, instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925,” Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP said.
“It emphasises Christ’s sovereignty over all creation, and especially in our own lives, just as Corpus Christi emphasises his intimacy with creation and with us. To bring Christ onto the streets of Sydney in this way is to claim Sydney for Christ and to declare his authority over us but also his closeness to us.”
Sydney Auxiliary Bishop Richard Umbers explained the Feast of Christ the King marks the final day of the Church’s liturgical calendar.
“This year, our annual Eucharistic Procession, Walk with Christ, will be celebrated on this Solemnity making visible the kingship of our Lord as the reign of truth, life, holiness, justice, love and peace over every age, every heart.
“We carry Christ into the city because the city, and the human work from which it is made, is destined to be gathered into Christ.”
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Walk with Christ moves to the Feast of Christ the King (By Darren Ally, The Catholic Weekly)
