Programme

All Masses during the Octave will take place at Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, WC2E 7NB, which is the Westminster Diocesan Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament.

The Annual Corpus Christi Procession departs from Warwick Street at 3pm.

View highlights of the 2021 Procession

A Eucharistic Octave at the Diocesan Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament in Covent Garden. Full details of the 2023 Octave will be announced in due course.

Saturday 3rd June

6:00pm: Sung Mass in the Roman Rite (English) opening the Octave
Vigil Mass of the Most Holy Trinity

Sunday 4th June

9:30am: Said Mass in English
11:30am: Sung Mass in Latin
5:00pm: Holy Hour with Vespers, Rosary & Benediction

Monday 5th June

6:30pm: TBC
Celebrant & Preacher: TBC

Tuesday 6th June

6:30pm: TBC
Celebrant & Preacher: TBC

Wednesday 7th June

6:30pm: TBC
Celebrant & Preacher: TBC

The Annual Quarant’Ore Devotions will take place from the end of Mass on Thursday evening until Saturday 6pm. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed from 7am – Midnight during this time.

To submit a prayer intention or to have a lamp burning before Our Lord, click here

Thursday 8th June

6:30pm: Mass in the Roman Rite (Latin)
Mass opening Annual Quarant’Ore Devotions
Celebrant: Fr Alan Robinson

Friday 9th June

7am – Midnight: Continuation of Quarant’Ore Devotions
6:30pm: TBC
Celebrant & Preacher: TBC

Saturday 10th June

7am – 6pm: Continuation of Quarant’Ore Devotions
6pm: Mass in the Roman Rite (English)
Mass closing the Annual Quarant’Ore Devotions
Celebrant: Fr Alan Robinson

Sunday 11th June

11:00am: The Solemnity of Corpus Christi followed by a Eucharistic Procession around Covent Garden
Celebrant & Preacher: His Eminence, Vincent Cardinal Nichols
Archbishop of Westminster

3:00pm: The Annual Corpus Christi Procession Departing from Warwick Street at 3pm, towards Spanish Place via the Ukrainian Cathedral

“Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist.”