Josh Ritter of Ham Lake, MN, died from an aneurysm at the age of 33, the same age of Christ. The cast of the parish’s presentation of the Living Stations dedicated it to Josh and another young parishioner who died. Both had played Jesus in previous years.
In his often emotional remarks about Bishop O’Connell in the days since his Feb. 18 murder, LA Archbishop José H. Gomez has described him as “a man who loved Jesus Christ, and gave his whole life to following Jesus, to being his friend and to helping others to find Jesus.”
The overflowing congregation at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception hardly needed reminding to raise their “eyes to the heavens” during a dedication of the Trinity Dome Mosaic Dec. 8.
