CHARLOTTE — More than 225 parishioners from St. Ann Church joined their pastor, Father Timothy Reid, in a historic outdoor Eucharistic Procession that commemorated the Feast of Christ the King in the Extraordinary Form Oct. 25.
The event began with Mass in the Extraordinary Form (Latin), offered by Father Reid, with Deacon Peter Tonon offering a homily on the Kingship of Christ and Pope Pius XI’s encyclical “Quas Pimas,” which established this feast day in 1925 to combat the growing secularism in society.
In the Extraordinary Form calendar, the feast is celebrated on the last Sunday in October.
After Mass, as custom since 2016, Father Reid led a Eucharistic Procession to honor Christ’s kingship over all nations and was joined by Father Joseph Matlak, Holy Trinity Middle School’s chaplain and administrator of St. Basil the Great Eastern Catholic Parish.
The procession took on a historic note this year as the Blessed Sacrament, flanked by an escort of several Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department 
vehicles, was processed for the first time through the Park Road neighborhood to the campus of Holy Trinity Middle School for outdoor Benediction before processing back to St. Ann Church. Providentially, rainy weather ceased moments before Father Reid left the church carrying the monstrance, and neighborhood residents came out of their homes on the quiet Sunday afternoon to see what the excitement was about.
The procession was accompanied by Gregorian chant provided by the St. Ann schola, and some of the faithful carried flags or images of their favorite saints of royalty who honored Christ’s kingship during their own reign. The Eucharistic Procession was sponsored by St. Ann Parish and the Charlotte Latin Mass Community.
St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Charlotte also organized a Eucharistic Procession around the parish grounds after an Extraordinary Form Mass offered the same day.
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— Photo provided by Markus Kuncoro