Eucharistic Procession

 While MIT and Harvard were having their Eucharistic procession (yea!) we were having ours at the Angelicum. Being in the back with the laity, I didn't get so many good pictures, but here are a few of us going through our corridors to the Church of Sts. Dominic and Sixtus.

 This academic year they've started opening the church here more often for people in the neighborhood--prayer groups, Stations of the Cross in Lent, occasional Adoration.

 But this was one of the few times during the year when it's opened for the students, and we processed in, giving thanks for another year of Adoration here (now 14 years total).

 And the church really is beautiful with its frescoed ceiling and walls, high altar and side altars.  I like the Dominican dog, (from Domini canes--a Latin pun on Dominicans and Dogs of the Lord), here with a palm for St. Sixtus (pope and martyr) and a lily for St. Dominic, and holding a torch with which to set the world alight. 

 In this particular Dominican dog, he seems to be even in a Dominican habit, complete with black cappa.

And while this "Noli me tangere" was not carved by Michelangelo, it was done in his school, by his students.