Divine Mercy Eucharistic Procession at TAC-California

While their New England counterparts embarked on a pilgrimage for the Feast of Divine Mercy, students at Thomas Aquinas College, California, celebrated the Second Sunday of Easter with a campus-wide Eucharistic procession. 

The faithful gathered in the Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel at two o’clock on Sunday afternoon to adore the Lord in the Eucharist. After a moment of silent prayer, College Chaplain Rev. Robert Marczewski, monstrance in hand, led the congregation out of the Chapel and into the colonnade, where the voices of the accompanying choir resounded in a heavenly flourish. 

 

 

One by one, the procession visited the six residence halls. Each hall presented an altar carefully decorated with flowers, icons, crucifixes, Rosaries and other sacramentals belonging to its members. At each stop, Fr. Marczewski prayed for the students living therein, imploring Christ to “keep them, protect them, and guide them on the path which You have chosen for them,” before blessing the building with the monstrance. 

Once each residence hall received a blessing, the procession returned to the Chapel, where students chanted the Divine Mercy Chaplet — the closing prayer to the Divine Mercy Novena — eyes fixed on the monstrance which held the Lord. Prayer was followed by the repose of the Blessed Sacrament and the veneration of the relics of St. Faustina Kowalska, the “secretary” of Divine Mercy.

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