Diocese of East Anglia Lourdes Pilgrimage 2026
September 17, 2026
For nearly six months, in the run-up to the recent Ipswich Deanery Eucharistic Congress, the weekly newsletter at St Pancras carried a series of reflections on the Blessed Sacrament.
Based on the Lauda Sion, the complete series has now been brought together in a single volume, This Festival Divine, published by Verbum Publications.
The blurb on the back cover reads:
‘Corpus Christi, the ‘festival divine,’ must surely rank – after the great feasts of Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost – as the greatest feast in the Church’s calendar. On this day, the Church sings of the glories of the sacramental presence of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist, the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. In the Blessed Sacrament, Christ keeps His promise to be with us always (Mt 28:20) in an astonishing and unique fashion. Both the majesty and the intimacy of Our Lord’s presence is celebrated and shouted from the housetops in the Church’s liturgy of the feast of Corpus Christi composed by St Thomas Aquinas at the behest of Pope Urban IV. In these short reflections, the author takes us, verse by verse, through the Sequence of the Mass of the feast day, the Lauda Sion, unpacking for the reader just some of the treasures to be found in this centuries-old hymn of adoration.’
Copies of This Festival Divine are available from The Great British Bookshop or directly from Verbum Publications.
