Tabernacle saved in Palisades Fire makes a surprise LA appearance
At the June 22 concluding Mass for the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, one object stood apart as a vivid reminder of the Eucharist as an answer to human suffering: the tabernacle famously salvaged from the church that burned in the Palisades Fire earlier this year. That church’s name? Corpus Christi.
“If you were writing a novel, you would hope you’d create something like this,” said Msgr. Liam Kidney, pastor of Corpus Christi Church in Pacific Palisades.
Kidney was among the more than 3,000 people at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on the feast of Corpus Christi that day, along with some survivors of the Palisades and Eaton Fires. He told Angelus that seeing the cathedral fill with so many people “who love their faith” — including pilgrims who came to pray at the site of Corpus Christi the day before — made him emotional.