Bishop David G. O'Connell, the beloved Los Angeles cleric who was shot to death in his bed last month, is eulogized at a funeral Mass attended by thousands.
Pope Francis named him an auxiliary bishop in 2015. The funeral was one of four Masses and memorials planned by the archdiocese to honor the beloved bishop, who was 69 when he died.
To open the Mass, Gómez read from a telegram he had received from the Vatican expressing Pope Francis’ sorrow over O’Connell’s untimely death. “I can’t imagine walking that road without David at my side,” he said. “I’m sure I would have lost my way.” “Uncle Dave was an inspiration to us our whole lives,” he said. “He taught us that if you have the capacity to help someone, you should do it. I can hear him so clearly in my mind saying, ‘That’s not a problem. I can do it.’ All he wanted to do was make things easier for everyone else and he never asked for a single thing, ever.”
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