Corpus Christi

What it commemorates

Corpus Christi solemnly commemorates the institution of the Holy Eucharist.

Place in the liturgical year

It is kept on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday.

In the 1962 Latin Mass Calendar

In the 1962 calendar it is kept as a day of the first class: In Festo Ssmi Corporis Christi.

Modern Roman Calendar

The Modern Roman Calendar ranks it as a celebration with precedence over solemnities; its ranks differ from the four classes of 1962.

Sources

All liturgical days