OUR PASTOR

Rev. Benedict DeLeon

UPCOMING PARISH ACTIVITIES

BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS WILL BE ON Sunday October 2, in honor of St. Francis of Assisi. Meet at the side of the church in the main parking lot at 3:00 p.m. The ceremony of Blessing will be celebrated once at 3:10 p.m. All animals are welcome! Bring your dogs, cats, rabbits, rats, parrots, guinea pigs, gold fish.


 


Faith Formation

PARENTS: If you plan to have your child in our Religious Education program, please call the Church Office and leave your name, the name of your child, grade level, and whether or not your child has received their First Holy Communion. Registration forms are at both entrances to the Church. 

  

 There will be a PARENTS ONLY MEETING on Thursday evening, September. 29, at 7:00 p.m. In order to plan the times for classes and teachers, we need to know how many students we will have. The first class for children 1st through 5th grade will be Thursday, October, 6.

ROAD WORK Projects in the area

From now and through to October there will be major highway improvement projects taking place in our direct vicinity, for example the roundabout project at the 28 & 89 Y junction, and extensive water drainage improvements from Granlibakken to Tahoma. It is going to affect traffic in front of our church and in our parking lots from Mondays through Fridays until October. We will have to “play it by ear” and plan appropriately in regards to such things as our Religious Ed classes on weekdays, and daily Mass. Delays of up to 20 minutes are to be expected, warns Caltrans. Weekend events and weekend Mass will probably not be affected.


Welcome to Corpus Christi Church

“May grace, mercy, and peace be yours from God the Father
and Christ Jesus our Lord” (1 Tim. 1:2).

If you are a member, full or part-time, of Corpus Christi Parish, thank you for using this means (our web-site) of strengthening your bond of membership of our parish family and of accessing information on parish life and services – liturgical celebrations, religious formation programs (adult, youth, and child), spiritual ministries, social events, etc. If you are not a parish member, the parishioners, parish staff, and the priests of Corpus Christi Parish greet you and thank you for visiting us via cyberspace.
Should you sometime visit us in person you will be welcome. Your visit will be a grace for us and, we pray, for you, for it will be God, in his Divine Providence, who will have brought you here. Our parish and parish church bear the name “Corpus Christi” – the Body of Christ; an affirmation of the Real Presence of Christ - Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity- in the Most Holy Eucharist. Our mission church, in Olympic Valley, is named “Queen of Snows”, in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, and spiritually Mother of the Church and mother to each of us baptized into Christ. Visit and enter our two churches in the picture page of our web-site.

“May mercy, peace, and love be yours in ever greater measure” (Jude v. 2).
Again, welcome!

Corpus Christi History

Corpus Christi Parish, along with that of Susanville, Westwood, Portola and Quincy, is a daughter parish of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish, Truckee (est. 1870). It was established as a separate parish, as it were "left home and mother", in 1961.

Corpus Christi Church, the parish church, is located on California Highway 89, one mile south of Tahoe City. It was built in 1911 and dedicated on September 10 of that year. It stands on land donated by the Duane L. Bliss family, then owners of the Lake Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company and of Tahoe Tavern. Its building and furnishings (altar, pews, etc.) were funded by Frederick and Mary Elizabeth Kohl, of San Francisco. The church capacity was increased by the addition of a wing in the early 1960s. The addition of the present choir area, a renovation of the church and the installation of the stained-glass windows were completed in 1992.

Queen of the Snows Church, the mission church of the parish, is two miles up the Squaw Valley Road, in Squaw (Olympic) Valley, about 7 miles from Tahoe City. It was built in 1959 and dedicated by Cardinal James Francis McIntyre of Los Angeles during the opening week of the 1960 Winter Olympics held at Squaw Valley.


FROM THE PASTOR

I’m accompanying Klondike my dog on a vacation which he has been looking forward to, and which he totally deserves….. “You’ve gone all over the world,” he says, “and now I want to do something too.” We thank Fr Brendan McKeefry for his help over the summer season. In the coming year 2017, Fr McKeefry will be celebrating 50 years a priest! For now, please afford your deepest hospitality to Fr Patrick Henry until I return at the end of the month. 

Fr Benedict DeLeon

Parish Registration Form

Welcome to the Corpus Christi Parish! If you are a full time or part-time parish resident, we invite you to register as a parishioner. Please contact the parish office or you may also pick-up a copy of our registration form at the entrances to the Corpus Christi Church. God Bless and welcome!

Please Call Parish Office 530 583-4409. Parish_registration_Color_letterhead.docx


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Online Giving

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Parish Pastoral Council

Mission Statement (Approved 6/15/2004)

The mission of Corpus Christi Parish Pastoral Council, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and God, Our Father, through the light of the Gospel, is to help the Pastor serve his people better by investigating their needs relating to pastoral activities, formulating practical recommendations and providing assistance as and if needed to implement these recommendations once accepted by the pastor.

Parish Pastoral Council Guidelines

"The Parish Pastoral Council is a consultative body, pastoral in nature, because it strives to discern the movement of the Holy Spirit among God's people in the parish. A Parish Pastoral Council gives its help to the pastor in fostering pastoral activity; it investigates, under the authority of the pastor, all those things which pertain to pastoral works to ponder them, and to propose practical conclusions about them. It is essential that Council meetings occur in the context of prayer and openness to the Holy Spirit, so that at all times the common good will prevail. Specifically, the Parish Pastoral Council's purpose is to enhance the process of:

    a. pastoral planning

    b. developing pastoral programs

    c. improving pastoral services

    d. evaluating the pastoral effectiveness of various programs and services"

 

Parish Finance Council


Queen of the Snows

Our mission church, in Olympic Valley, is named “Queen of Snows”, in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, and spiritually Mother of the Church and mother to each of us baptized into Christ.