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127 袭击之后信徒们聚集到举行肯尼迪总统葬礼的大教堂 After Attack, Worshipers Flock To Cathedral Where Kennedys Funeral Held Keming Kuo Washington 14 Sep 2001 05:47 UTC A large, black net was spread across the ceiling of St. Matthews 1)Cathedral, to catch 2)stray 3)debris from the churchs 4)ongoing 5)restoration. It lent an additional 6)somber note to the midday Mass, led by the 7)Archbishop of the Washington Roman Catholic 8)Archdiocese, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. 9)Cardinal McCarrick, who donated blood the previous evening to help the injured victims of the Pentagon and New York City disasters, told the gathering that the events touched him personally. Many of you know people who have lost loved ones, he said. One of my 10)nephews is a fireman in New York who is missing. So we know these things. We feel these things. We worry about these things. Yet, the faith we have this tough, wonderful, strong 11)faith we have that we must always hold on to tells us that Gods judgement is always good and that Gods love is always there. And we must have confidence in Him that He will bring all things right. In his 12)homily to the St. Matthews congregation, Cardinal McCarrick said that as terrible as the loss of so many Americans was, the victims will find a new life after death. The lesson is this: this world is not the one that lasts forever. Our lives here are not the end-all, the be-all of everything that we have. God has given us this time as a 13)journey. 14)Monsignor Ron Jameson said the huge, red-brick St. Matthews Cathedral has had a long tradition as a place of solace after national tragedies, including the 1963 funeral Mass of President John F. Kennedy following his 15)assassination. You see people just pouring in from the street, coming in for a few moments to pray and then join us at Mass. Certainly its a notion that with such tragedy, we have to turn to our 16)Creator, turn to the Lord in prayer. The fact that President Kennedys funeral was