The Order will once again be taking part in the annual Corpus Christi procession through central London on 2 June 2024: Members, Companions, members of the OMV, and friends are strongly encouraged to participate for all or part of the procession.

This procession is a wonderful act of witness to our Eucharistic Lord through the heart of our city and includes the two parishes with which we work most closely in our hospitaller work, St James’s Spanish Place and Warwick Street, as well as the Diocesan Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament at Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane. The Order is one of the founders of this annual event which has grown steadily since its institution ten years ago.

This year is a particularly special year, as Warwick Street marks its 300th anniversary, Maiden Lane the 150th anniversary of the erection of its church, and Spanish Place the 75th anniversary of the consecration of its church. The procession, led by the Apostolic Nuncio together with our confrère, Mgr Keith Newton, the Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, and Bishop Kenneth Nowalski, Eparch of the Ukrainian Catholic Church, will therefore link these three churches together in two phases: one starting at Maiden Lane at c.12:45 and processing to Warwick Street, arriving at c.2pm, where there will be one and a half hours of adoration; the second leaving Warwick Street at 3:30pm and processing to Spanish Place, via the Ukrainian Cathedral at Duke Street, arriving for solemn Benediction at 4:45pm. 

The Procession is the culmination and conclusion of the London Eucharistic Octave, a week of prayer before and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament centred on the Shrine at Maiden Lane – full detail of everything happening during the Octave can be found at https://catholicengland.org/.