My very belated collection of pictures from Easter Mass at St. Peter's. For Masses like this, the Vatican organizes about 150 priests and deacons to help distribute Holy Communion. You cannot concelebrate, but you do assist at the Mass. To take part, you have to have a ticket and a letter of good standing. I have the latter, and was able to get the former. So, I went down to St. Peter's to distribute communion. The instructions they give us are two: We us the Latin phrase (Corpus Christi) rather than Italian or other vernacular, and communion may be given only on the tongue. Having confronted the crowd of people wanting communion (250,000) and the very limited number of hosts, this is the only way to preserve proper reverence for the Sacrament. I do not take pictures during Mass--and obviously could not bring my regular camera. These are just with a phone camera and are either right before or right after the Mass.
