By Jon Perez, Catholic Saskatoon News

Hundreds of parishioners of the Cathedral of the Holy Family joined a Eucharistic procession after the 11 a.m. Mass on Sunday, June 2 — one of many such processions held to mark the feast day of Corpus Christi across the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saskatoon.

Holy Family Pastor Fr. Gerard Cooper and Associate Pastor Fr. Joe-Nelo Penino con-celebrated the solemn Mass before the Eucharistic procession on the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ. Bishop Mark Hagemoen, holding the monstrance containing the consecrated host, led the procession.

There were four stops around the Cathedral grounds to bless the crowd and encourage a deep sense of connection and reverence.

To conclude the celebration, exposition and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament followed.

St. Thomas Aquinas, a Dominican friar and one of the Doctors of the Catholic Church, proposed the feast day to Pope Urban IV in the 13th century to emphasize the importance of honouring the Most Precious Body of Christ in the Holy Eucharist.