Friday, May 23, 2008


Dominicans celebrate the day with dedication of the Body of Christ

Corpus Christi is "body of Christ" in Latin. The date for the Christian community has a meaning of worship and veneration of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist, is celebrated in different ways in various parts of the world.

The celebration of Corpus Thursday in Santo Domingo is the responsibility of the archdiocese of the city, commanded by Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez. The purple invited the community to participate in the activity to be held today at the Quisqueya stadium in the capital.

The church cited this pattern to 4:00 pm and the procession will start one hour earlier, at 3:00, starting from Plaza de la Salud, with praise, prayers and songs, until it reaches the Quisqueya stadium. According to information provided by the office of the archdiocese, acts by the Corpus Christi will be presided over by Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez and involve priests, deacons and embodied, with the advice and equipment parish pastoral animation.

They will also be representatives of the 14 pastoral areas of the Archdiocese of Santo Domingo, as well as delegates from apostolic movements, church congregations, agencies and special guests from various sectors of society.

The event will be broadcast chain Televida Channel 41, National News Network (RNN) and CERTV (Channel 4) and ABC radio stations 540 AM, 105.3 FM Life, Youth Radio and Radio Santa Maria. In Santiago According to the priest Odanis Ortiz, particularly in the diocese of Santiago, is a procession from the street on March 30 at Cibao stadium, where he developed several church activities.

This activity, multitudinous, is a walk in which people from different parishes van carrying flags and worshiping the Blessed with the consecrated Host. According to the father Thelián Crown, rector of the Salesian University of Bolivia, Corpus Christi is the feast tribute to this body of Christ in the consecrated host and shared with society.

This holiday, was also the protagonist of beliefs and traditions. More than anything, in rural areas was believed that Corpus who will work on a Thursday would be appalled with the verb of the ox. In good Dominican, the animal will speak. According to Cecilia Mars, devout faithful of Christianity, the belief is part of the past.

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