THIS Sunday June 1 will see a Corpus Christi Procession at St Macartan’s Cathedral in Monaghan Town.

The celebration will commence at 5pm with a talk on the Eucharist followed by a Eucharistic Procession and Rosary in the grounds of the Cathedral, (outdoors -weather permitting) and conclude with Benediction at 6:00 p.m.

Catholics worldwide celebrate the Feast day of Corpus Christi on Thursday 22 May or Sunday 25 May and outdoor processions or other celebrations will be taking place in many local parishes over the coming days. This Feast Day is the solemn celebration of the Body and Blood of Christ truly present in the Holy Eucharist. The celebration in Monaghan gives people from all parts of the Diocese the opportunity to come together to celebrate this Special Feast Day.

One of the themes of this year’s celebration will be ‘The Year of the Vocation’ when we are asked to contemplate our own vocation in life and to pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life. In any Eucharistic Celebration, Holy Mass or Holy hour before the Blessed Sacrament we can fulfill Jesus’ request to his apostles to “ask the Lord of the Harvest to send workers into the Harvest.” This will be one of the special intentions this year.

This celebration is being organised by the Clogher Diocesan Committee of the ‘Lay Apostolate of Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration’ an International Lay Association of the Catholic Church founded by a lay man Owen Treanor in Los Angelus in 1985. The Apostolate was formally established in the Clogher Diocese in 2005 - The Year of the Eucharist. Since then the lay members of the Diocesan Committee have been visiting parishes promoting Eucharistic Adoration.

The members cordially welcome all people from throughout the Diocese to the Corpus Christi Procession, particularly all young people who have received the Sacraments of First Holy Communion and Confirmation in 2008.

For further information on the Apostolate or on the Corpus Christi Celebration contact Francis on (047) 85394 or Rosaleen on 048 67723302.