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mokenamessenger.com life & Arts<br />
the Mokena Messenger | June 7, 2018 | 21<br />
Marching with faith<br />
St. Mary Catholic<br />
Church parishioners<br />
celebrate Corpus<br />
Christi<br />
T.J. Kremer III, Editor<br />
Anyone near St. Mary<br />
Catholic Church at around<br />
noon on Sunday, June, 3,<br />
might have noticed about<br />
100 parishioners marching<br />
down 195th Street toward<br />
St. Mary Cemetery; they<br />
would’ve been hard to miss.<br />
The procession was meant<br />
to mark the catholic celebration<br />
of Corpus Christi, the<br />
feast of the body and blood<br />
of Christ that traces its roots<br />
back to the 13th century.<br />
Those in the procession<br />
included The Knights of<br />
Columbus, seminarians and<br />
children who had made their<br />
first communion, as well<br />
members of the choir and<br />
scores of parishioners.<br />
Along the processional<br />
route, the group stopped at<br />
three altars — each located<br />
near St. Mary’s current<br />
home on 195th Street — to<br />
pray, light incense, sing and<br />
bless the surrounding area.<br />
“What we do when I bless,<br />
when I incense, I bless Jesus<br />
and also the surrounding area<br />
around our neighborhood,<br />
it’s kind of a way of bringing<br />
the world to Christ, is what I<br />
call it, because we’re consecrating<br />
our neighborhood to<br />
Jesus by bringing him there<br />
and also blessing with the<br />
monstrance, with the blessed<br />
sacrament, the whole area,”<br />
said Rev. Dindo Billote.<br />
According to Billote, the<br />
processional had been a<br />
popular event for catholics<br />
up until the 1970s, when<br />
church modernizations left<br />
the march out of favor with<br />
many churches. But, now,<br />
the trend seems to be making<br />
a comeback.<br />
“We had a renewal in the<br />
church in the 1970s where<br />
they did different things,<br />
not the procession,” Billote<br />
said. “They wanted to<br />
do more of a modern mass.<br />
And a lot of the time adoration<br />
was — and the blessed<br />
sacrament tradition of doing<br />
these processions — was not<br />
as popular at those times, but<br />
now it is.<br />
… It’s just a way to reestablish<br />
what we believe, and<br />
also to, I think, to bless, consecrate<br />
the whole church and<br />
the surroundings with the<br />
blessed sacrament, with Jesus<br />
and the eucharist there,<br />
which is the feast we’re celebrating.”<br />
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The Rev. Dindo Billote (center) waves incense and prays over an altar outside St. Mary<br />
Church on Sunday, June 3. Around 100 parishioners participated in the Corpus Christi<br />
procession from the church to St. Mary Cemetery. T.J. Kremer III/22nd Century Media<br />
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