The Mass, presided over by parish pastor Rev. Joseph Magdaong, is the first funeral for one of the 11 victims.
The first funereal farewell for the victims of the recent Monterey Park mass shooting is currently underway.
Family, friends and other mourners filled the pews of St. Stephen Martyr Catholic Church — a midcentury parish whose campanile dominates the strip-mall skyline not far from the Star Ballroom Dance Studio, where a gunman killed 11 and wounded nine others — to remember the life ofThe Mass, is being presided over by parish pastor Rev. Joseph Magdaong and Rev. Leo Ortega, is the first major public funeral for one of the victims, nearly two weeks after the mass shooting rent Monterey Park. St.
“His Holiness joins the entire community in commending the souls of those who died to Almighty God’s loving mercy and he implores the divine gifts of healing and consolation upon the injured and bereaved,”, from Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin to Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez in a telegam last week. “As a pledge of strength and peace in the Lord, the Holy Father sends his blessing.
The community has spent the last couple of weeks trying to begin the healing process. But the pain still seres. The grief remains raw. Yet, while the entire Monterey Park community — and, indeed, all of Southern California — is still grieving for all of the victims, with other funerals certainly coming together over the coming weeks, Friday’s Mass was about Alvero.And he was the“He was a loving father,” the statement added, “a dedicated son and brother, a grandfather who loved his three nieces and nephews like his own children.”
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