In Service of Lamentation, Diocese Apologizes to Victims of Sexual Abuse

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This service in a cathedral began with victims’ words of pain and reproach, ending in each case with a priest’s response “your safe house of God is the home of my torment…I am so sorry” Encircling the sanctuary were more than 100 priests and deacons of the diocese with bowed heads. All wore purple stoles over white albs symbolizing repentance…
see catholickey.org/2016/07/08/in-service-of-lamentation-diocese-apologizes-to-victims-of-sexual-abuse/
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KANSAS CITY — The past 10, 30, even 50 years or more have been filled with pain, confusion, grief and hatred for those in this diocese victimized by priestly sexual abuse. For them and for others, perhaps the June 26 Diocesan Service of Lament offered a promise of healing and release for the future.
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It began with voices, a litany of suffering, of pain and reproach, interspersed with a single chime that seemed to ask, “Why?”
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This is powerful. My thoughts and prayers are with that congregation and with those priests.
 
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This is powerful. My thoughts and prayers are with that congregation and with those priests.
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Seems very powerful to me, too. I’m praying for them all…

Lord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women
And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit,
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be world without end. Amen.

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