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Lima (Fides Service) - Various Church initiatives all over the country have served to intensify preparations for the annual solemnity of Corpus Christi in this Year of the Eucharist. One particular initiative was that of Eucharistic Weeks held in the different dioceses attended by thousands of people with special catechesis on different aspects of the Eucharist to promote deeper awareness and gratitude for the immense gift of the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.
The Eucharistic Week in the archdiocese of organised at the request of the Archbishop José Ríos Reynoso started on 19 May and will close with a solemn concelebration of Mass and Procession with the Blessed Sacrament through the city centre on Thursday 26 May feast of Corpus Christi in the whole of the universal Church. The archdiocese of Lima is holding a Eucharistic Week Sunday 22 to Sunday 29 the day on which the capital celebrates Corpus Christi with a solemn Mass and Procession presided by the Archbishop, Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani. The celebration is expected to draw at least 30,000 including bishops, clergy, deacons, religious, members of lay associations and confraternities etc.
In the other dioceses of Peru, such as El Callo the main port city, on Sunday 29 May hundreds of priests, religious, members of fraternities and apostolic movements, civil authorities and ordinary citizens will witness to their faith in the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament taking part in solemn masses presided by the respective Bishops followed by a procession through the streets decorated with flower carpets for the occasion.
In this Year of the Eucharist the diocese of Tarma in the Andes mountain region has oriented all ordinary pastoral care to deepening awareness and gratitude for the Eucharist and the continual presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. This journey to deepen faith has helped the people take a more active part in Sunday Mass and Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament led every Sunday this year by the Bishop of Tarma Mgr Richard Alarcón Urrutia. Here too preparations for Corpus Christi have been intensified and there is great expectancy for the 1st diocesan Eucharist Congress planned for 17-20 November this year. (RZ) (Agenzia Fides 24/5/2005, righe 27, parole 348)
