Mariglianella: Success for the Corpus Domini Procession promoted by the Parish Community

Sunday 23 June 2019 on the day of “Holy Body and Blood of Jesus” also in Mariglianella is
the “Solemnity of Corpus Domini” was celebrated and the procession promoted by the
Parish community led by the Parish Priest Don Ginetto De Simone.
In popular religious sentiment this is one of the most heartfelt solemnities which, in addition to offering to the
faithful the occasion of the Eucharistic Procession is the fulfillment of an obligation on the part of the
Church. Its origins take us to 13th century Belgium but its extension to the whole Church 
It happened with the bull “Transiturus de hoc mundo” of August 1264, XNUMX by Pope Urban IV
who thus established the Solemnity of Corpus Christi as a holy day of obligation.
In Mariglianella, after the Eucharistic Celebration officiated by Don Vincenzo Tramontano,
The community of the faithful arranged themselves following Don Ginetto, carrying the monstrance under the
canopy, all ready to walk with Jesus through the streets of the town with a prayer stop on
Via Materdomini near the historic Elementary School.
At the conclusion of the Corpus Domini Procession, the Parish Priest Don Ginetto De Simone, in the
Awarded Church of St. John the Evangelist, he thus contemplated the Eucharist before his
reposition in the tabernacle: “Walk, O Jesus, stand at the feet of Jesus; go through life,
o Jesus; to be within the events, o Jesus; to watch, o Jesus; to love, o Jesus. You are me
necessary o Lord. You are necessary to my life, to our home, to our family,
to our Community, to our Church that lives by eternal Faith”.
The Dominican Sisters of Maria SS participated in the Corpus Domini Procession.
of the Arch at the Church of Madonna della Sanità; the representatives of civil associations and
religious; the representatives of the Municipal Administration, the Mayor, Felice Di Maiolo, the
Councillors Arcangelo Russo and Felice Porcaro; the Deputy Commander of the Municipal Police,
Lieutenant Geppino Petrella, the Heads of Municipal Services, UTC. Engineer Arcangelo
Addeo; General Affairs, Dr. Francesco Principato; the journalist Antonio Castaldo of the Office
Print. The surveillance service, previously arranged by the Commander PM. Ten.
Andrea Mandanici, along the entire route was insured by the Municipal Police with the
collaboration of the Municipal Civil Protection Group which makes use of the constant work of
volunteering by Eng. Orsino Menichini.
At the end of the procession, the Mayor of Maiolo and the municipal administrators expressed their gratitude to the
Parish Priest Don Ginetto their respectful greeting.