Candle Category: Sorrow

Judie Rinearson lights this candle of sorrow for her dear friend and fellow National Chorale Board member Myra Tobin.  Judie looked up to Myra as a successful New York City working woman and Kentucky ranch owner, and as her kind and wise mentor and friend.  Myra will be so missed by all who knew her. 

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...