Thursday, December 27, 2007

4 of 8 Omaha shooting victims were Catholic

This article has tender and loving profiles of the four Omaha mall shooting victims who were Catholic with comforting words from each of their funeral services. Bless all the victims and their families.

http://www.catholic.org/diocese/diocese_story.php?id=26275&cb300=vocations

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Family members of Gary Joy, Janet Jorgensen, Dianne Trent, Angie Schuster, Maggie Webb, John McDonald, Beverly Flynn and Gary Scharf spoke at wake services and funerals last week in Omaha area churches.

Icy roads and wintry weather couldn't stop thousands of mourners from gathering to remember the innocent victims.At funeral services of the four Catholics who were buried in the Omaha area – Jorgensen, McDonald, Trent and Schuster – the message was the same: hope and God's power over death.

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Do read the article. It's a reminder of what the "average Joes and Marys" of this country are like, and how great they truly are without being secular stars...