text: I disagree with you completely that Catholics in the 1970s got deeper into belief in the Real Presence. If anything that's when belief in it tapered off. Of course the deepest intimacy with Our Lord in the Eucharist is receiving Him, but how does a Eucharist procession take away from that?  Or spending time in adoration and prayer? If anything, processions bring Him outside the confines of the Church building and is exactly the type of evangelization we need today. I fail to see how faith in the Real Presence is deepened by keeping Him to ourselves and not getting our feet dirty and taking the source and summit of our faith into the street. Once I heard something to the effect we don't have processions anymore because now after Vatican II "we are the body of Christ" which obscures the distinction between the Mystical Body of Christ (The Church) and His Eucharistic Body (The Head of the Church) and is a complete misreading of Vatican II which never told us to throw out our devotions.