Charleville Corpus Christi ‘reimagined’ into tour of town

THE annual Corpus Christi Procession 2020 in Charleville will take on a different format this year due to the prevailing Covid-19 pandemic.

Instead of the usual procession with people walking from Holy Cross Church through the Main Street as far as Holy Cross Cemetery, the Blessed Sacrement will be transported, and will follow a diverse and different route calling to all housing estates in the town to make the event a truly inclusive one.

“We are inviting people along the route to come to their gates or front doors, while at all times keeping within the HSE Guidelines, to be part of the Procession of the Blessed Sacrament. Prayers and hymns will be recited and sung along the way,” said chief organiser Cllr Ian Doyle. “This is a unique opportunity for us as a Parish to praise and give thanks to the Lord in these unprecedented times.”

Dubbed the Corpus Christi Procession with a difference in light of Covid-19, the mobile procession will take place on next Sunday evening 15th June starting after the 6pm Angelus bell, when the Holy Sacrament will be processed through Charleville, by Very

Rev. Donal Canon O’Mahony, P.P. and Rev Anthony Sheehan.

Cllr. Doyle said the route will be as follows: “Leaving the Church and turning up Love Lane and Pastures, down through Turetts, into Blooms Court, Deerpark Heights, Manor Hill and Vale Close, up towards Broghill via Rathgoggin Heights, Orchards Heights, Mannixville, Batt Donegan and Hillview Drive.

“Then down to Limerick Road, into Deerpark Heights, coming up through Old Limerick Road, down Newtownbarry and into Pike Farm, going out Smiths Road, into Glen Haven, Meadow Vale, Lios na Ri and going out as far Lisculhane.

It will then go back across the Park, including Burke Park Place, to Newline, Harrisons’ Place and Bishop Browne

Terrace, on to Cooleens and the Old Cork Road.

From there it will go into Brendan’s Drive, De Valera Place and Oliver Plunkett Place, Kennedy Place and across to Holy Cross Place, then back down to Main Street, Broad Street, up Bakers Road, over the Railway Road, and finally finishing with prayers in front of Holy Cross Cemetery.”