Candle Category: Sorrow

We light this candle for the dozens who lost their lives in the stampede in Israel. Senseless deaths like this are difficult to bear. May the families, friends, and community find healing in a time to come. 

Anne Hennessy lights this candle for her brother Dan. Anne shares, “My brother Dan unexpectedly went to Heaven Sunday night. My heart is beyond broken; he was my Irish twin, my friend and much loved brother. Please light a candle for him and keep his daughter, Payton, family and friends in your prayers.”

We light this candle in sorrow at news of a Mass Shooting at a Fed Ex Facility in Indianapolis. Prayers for the families of the slain, and for that community. Help us stem the tide of murderous rage and easy access to weapons of mass destruction for the violent and the unhinged …

We light this candle in sorrow and outrage at a police involved killing of a black man. We lift the family of Daunte Wright in our prayers. We hold the Brooklyn Center, MN community in care and responsibility as they determine how they will account for the injustice of this stolen life. 

We light this candle in sorrow and outrage learning of another police shooting of an African American male – Adam Toledo, 13, was killed by police in Chicago.  Thursday night we also witnessed a video of a Soldier in South Carolina assaulting a black man.  Holy one, the need to dismantle White Supremacy has never...

We light this candle for Norma Tassy and Tom as they mourn Jordan Tassy and we ask that you hold the morning of April 10th for a memorial service which will be outside, socially distanced, and live streamed to ensure that all who grieve this loss can participate.