Transiturus

Transiturus de hoc mundo[1] is the papal bull issued on 11 August 1264 by Pope Urban IV in which the feast of Corpus Christi (festum corporis) was declared throughout the entire Latin Church.

It is a sweet, sacrosanct and salutary memorial in which we renew our gratitude for our redemption, we distance ourselves from evil, we establish ourselves in goodness and progress in the acquisition of virtues and grace, we comfort ourselves by the bodily presence of ourselves.

For all of them have been destined to exercise the ministry at the service of those who have received the inheritance of salvation, And having been so vast the magnificence of the Lord towards us, wanting to show us even more his infinite love, in an outpouring he offered himself and surpassing the greatest generosity and every measure of charity, he gave himself as supernatural food.

Truly, the one who gives himself is endlessly generous, and his affectionate disposition increases in such a way that it, distributed in a great quantity of gifts, redounds at last and returns to the giver, all the greater the more extensively it has spread.

For on Holy Thursday, the day on which Christ instituted it, the universal Church, engaged in the confession of the faithful, in the blessing of the chrism, in the fulfillment of the mandate of the washing of the feet and in many other sacred ceremonies, cannot attend fully to the celebration of this great sacrament.

Especially, then, it is necessary to fulfill this duty with the admirable sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, which is glory and crown of all the Saints, so that it shines on a special festivity and solemnity and so that what may have been neglected in other Mass celebrations, as far as solemnity is concerned, is supplied with devout diligence; and so that the faithful, as this festivity approaches, entering within themselves, thinking about the past with attention, humility of spirit and purity of conscience, make up for what they have defectively accomplished by attending mass, perhaps occupied with thoughts of business mundane or more ordinarily because of human negligence and weakness.

That each year, then, a special and solemn feast of such a great sacrament be celebrated, in addition to the daily commemoration that the Church makes of it, and we establish a fixed day for it, the first Thursday after the eighth of Pentecost.

We also establish that on the same day devout crowds of faithful gather for this purpose in churches, with generosity of affection, and all the clergy and people, joyful, sing songs of praise, that lips and hearts be filled with holy happiness; sing faith, tremble hope, exult charity; throb devotion, exult purity; let hearts be sincere; that all unite with diligent spirit and prompt will, taking care of preparing and celebrating this party.

And may heaven fervor inflame the souls of all the faithful in the service of Christ, For this reason we recommend and exhort you in the Lord and by means of this Apostolic Bull we order you, by virtue of Holy Obedience, with rigorous precept, imposing it as remission of your sins, that you devoutly and solemnly celebrate this feast so sublime and glorious and endeavor with all attention to have it celebrated in all the churches of your cities and dioceses on the aforementioned Thursday of each year, with the new lessons, responsories, verses, antiphons, psalms, hymns and prayers proper to it, which we include in our Bull together with the proper parts of the mass; We also order you to exhort your faithful with healthy recommendations directly or through others on the Sunday that precedes the aforementioned Thursday so that with a true and pure confession, with generous alms, And, wanting to encourage the faithful with spiritual gifts to celebrate such a great festival with dignity, we grant to all those who truly repent and confess to participate in the matins of this festival, in the church where it is celebrated, one hundred days of indulgence; many others for the mass, and, likewise, to those who participate in the first vespers of this same party and in the second; and to all those who participate in the office of First, Third, Sixth, None and Compline, forty days for each hour.