The feast is a Latin Rite solemnity. It does not commemorate a particular event in Jesus' life but celebrates the Body of Christ, consecrated in the Mass. Its celebration on a Thursday is meant to associate it with the institution by Jesus of the Eucharist during the Last Supper, commemorated on Maundy Thursday, but because the primary focus of Maundy Thursday is the institution of the Eucharist and not a veneration of the Real Presence of Christ in the consecrated elements of bread and wine, Corpus Christi is observed after the fifty days of Easter are over. Therefore, when the feast of Corpus Christi was introduced it was placed on the first free Thursday after Eastertide.
At the end of the Mass, Fr. Timothy Pfeiffer led a Procession of the Blessed Sacrament, followed by potluck refreshment at the St. James Chapel.
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