Ordinary Time · Corpus Christi: The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ · Year A
Optional Sequence: Lauda Sion
June 4, 2026
Gregory kneels at the altar with the chalice before him and Christ rises from the tomb on the altar itself, the instruments of the Passion ranged around him on a gold ground.Behold the bread of angels, made the food of pilgrims: truly the bread of children, not to be cast to dogs. Praise, O Zion, your Saviour, your shepherd and leader, in hymns and canticles.Diego de la CruzA Flemish-trained painter working in Burgos in the late fifteenth century, who brought Netherlandish naturalism to Castilian gold-ground altarpieces.Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsThe painting is long out of copyright and the photograph is in the public domain.Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons