The Procession, a venerable Church tradition, is a Profession of Faith: both affirming and defining our faith “in Jesus Christ, alive and truly present in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist,” and the procession is a public statement of that belief. The sacrament of the Lord’s Body and Blood always “goes above and beyond the walls of our churches.” The procession blurs the separation between what we do inside the church, and what we do outside: we immerse Christ, so to speak, “in the daily routine of our lives, so that he may walk where we walk and live where we live.” Pope Benedict declared, "The procession represents an immense and public blessing for our city." Processing together in prayer with the Blessed Sacrament, Pope Francis told, is "an act to break open our faith and our lives as a sign of Christ’s love for the whole world."