While celebrating a June 19 Mass at Our Lady of Help of Christians Church in Waldorf and leading a Corpus Christi procession there after Mass, Washington Auxiliary Bishop Mario Dorsonville stressed that the Eucharist is at the heart of Christian life.
Father Alain Colliou, parish priest of Notre-Dame Auxiliatrice, and the parochial vicar, Father Jan Pietryga, concelebrated the mass marking the solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ.
In his homily, Bishop Dorsonville said the Eucharist played a central role in his vocational journey. He said the Corpus Christi procession after Mass would offer a “visible sign of the mission of every Christian”, that is to say “the proclamation of the Kingdom of God with his only life after being nourished by the Eucharist”.
After mass, Bishop Dorsonville was accompanied by priests, deacons, a dozen altar boys and more than 100 parishioners who processed outside the church with the Blessed Sacrament and then around the center of the village of Smallwood in Waldorf.
With hymns and songs, the parish community shared the joy of the paschal mystery made present in the sacrament of the Eucharist.
The procession ended with the blessing at the entrance of the church.
