Thousands of people joined Cardinal Vincent Nichols on a procession for the feast of Corpus Christi yesterday.
The procession started at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Farm Street and continued past Selfridges on Oxford Street.
Cardinal Nichols, who joined the social network Twitter on Friday, said in a message on the site that Corpus Christi "is a feast of unbounded joy for it is the feast of the love of God for us all, the love shown in Jesus".
— Cardinal Nichols (@CardinalNichols) June 7, 2015
The procession ended with Benediction at St James's Spanish Place in Marylebone.
During his homily at St James' Cardinal Nichols said that no one had "a right" to receive Communion.
"We can only come with a humble acknowledgement of our own unworthiness. We come knowing our weakness and leaning on the mercy of God. We can never receive Holy Communion with a good heart and a right intention unless we are willing to be changed, willing to be converted. Holy Communion can never be reduced to a sign or badge of acceptability, for it is always an invitation and a challenge to which we have to respond," he added.
He also quoted from a Tablet interview with the children's author David Almond, who was brought up a Catholic, and said: "To adapt the words of the author David Almond, being at Mass is to take part in a miracle. Here we see beyond the surface into the deepest now and into the forever! And this is the sight, the perspective, the insight we take from every Mass as we leave and return to our daily lives."
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