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Grateful for prayers, Archbishop Hebda on becoming ‘a community of even greater love’

Q) Archbishop, you have guided us through these really terrible, tragic days. How are you doing? A) I feel really privileged to be here, even though it's a very difficult time.
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Sept. 5 rosary planned for Annunciation shooting victims, community amid ‘heroic virtue’

The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis' Office for the Mission of Catholic Education has asked people to pray the rosary at 10 a.m. CT Sept. 5 for those affected by the Aug. 27 shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis that killed two schoolchildren and injured 21 others.
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Fletcher Merkel funeral planned for Sept. 7

The funeral for Fletcher Merkel, who died in the shooting Aug. 27 at Annunciation’s church in Minneapolis, is 4 p.m. Sept. 7 at Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, per an obituary published by the Minnesota Star Tribune. 
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UPDATE: Vice President Vance, Second Lady visit Annunciation

Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, visited at Annunciation church in Minneapolis Sept. 3 and laid flowers at the temporary memorial where two children were killed and 21 other people were injured in an Aug. 27 shooting.
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Safety and prayers blanket archdiocesan Catholic schools, parishes in wake of church shooting

Safety and prayer were top of mind as the school year began in the wake of a shooting that killed two students and wounded more than a dozen others at an Aug. 27 all-school Mass at Annunciation church in Minneapolis.
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UPDATED WITH HOMILY VIDEO: Annunciation pastor says first parish Mass after church shooting is a ‘humble beginning’

Recalling the fear and the cries from students, parents and school staff to “get low, stay down, stay down, don’t get up” as bullets tore through Annunciation church at an all-school Mass in Minneapolis, Father Denniz Zehren, the pastor, said it marked a new beginning.
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Sunday Mass at Annunciation: ‘When the darkness is most intense, that’s when the light of God shines all the more brightly’

The faithful followed the sound of bagpipes playing “Amazing Grace” as they headed to Mass at Annunciation school in Minneapolis Aug. 31. They came from all directions; some walked by boarded-up stained glass windows that were shattered at the parish church next door, when a gunman opened fire on an all-school Mass the morning of Aug. 27. The shooter killed two students — 8-year-old Fletcher Merkel and 10-year-old Harper Moyski — and wounded 15 other students and three adults at the elementary school.
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O’Brien family at Annunciation: Even stronger as a community after church shooting

Sean and Mallory O’Brien gently guided their four young children through the first parish Mass at Annunciation in Minneapolis since an Aug. 27 church shooting at an all-school Mass shattered the community.
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Annunciation pastor Father Zehren: ‘If I could have got between those bullets’

For the first time since the Aug. 27 attack by a gunman who killed two children and wounded 18 more at an all-school Mass where he was presiding, Father Dennis Zehren publicly described his attempt to save the children.
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Archbishop Hebda leads interfaith prayer service in Minneapolis in wake of church shooting

Jewish, Muslim, Greek Orthodox and Maronite Catholic faith leaders joined Archbishop Bernard Hebda and Bishops Michael Izen and Kevin Kenney for an interfaith prayer service Aug. 28 at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis.
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Bishops offer solace at Cathedral of St. Paul prayer service in wake of Annunciation shooting

A police car was parked outside the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul at noon Aug. 28, as people walked through the open doors to participate in an ecumenical prayer service mourning the victims of the Aug. 27 church shooting at Annunciation in Minneapolis. After the prayer service, Archbishop Hebda stood in the middle of the Cathedral, shaking hands as people exited and comforting those in tears.
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Archbishop Hebda is praying for a ‘healing of memories’ following Annunciation shooting

Archbishop Bernard Hebda was driving into work Aug. 27 when he heard a voicemail from Father Dennis Zehren, pastor of Annunciation church and school in Minneapolis, that "something had happened."
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