On Saturday, 24 February, more than 800 people gathered at San Gabriel Mission Church, to remember San Gabriel Valley Bishop David O’Conel, one year and a week since the beloved Los Angeles Catholic priest was shot at his Hacenda Heights home.
“We have gathered for this memorial mass for Bishop Dave O’Conel this morning, this is a moment to thank God for his life and our ministry and celebrate his beautiful life,” La Archbishop Jose Gomez said for the Parisian, and the priest of Los Angeles Diocesis followed a nightmare.
It was a year ago, on 18 February, when 69 -year -old O’Conel was shot dead in his Haysand Heights House bedroom. The priest’s death shocked the Roman Catholic community of Southern California, which also included Pope Francis, who appointed him to administer churches in the San Gabriel Valley under Gomez.
O’Conel was leading for the poor and on the forward lines of the event for a long time, and to help migrants to establish a leg.
His ministry in Southland began in 1979, mostly serving South La, it would grow to serve the poor and marginalized – a topic that went through his work, even when he was named the assistant bishop of Los Angeles by Francis in July 2015.
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Archbishop Jose H. Gomez blessed an exhibition dedicated to Bishop David O’Conel at San Gabriel Mission in San Gabriel on Saturday, February 24, 2024. The exhibition was opened to the public after a memorial mass for O’Conal, which should be shot several times in its Hasenda Heights. (Photo, photographer’s contribution by Trever Stamp)
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Photos and individual items related to bishop David O’conale are displayed in San Gabriel Mission on Saturday, February 24, 2024 to remember their lives in San Gabriel. The exhibition was opened to the public after a memorial mass for O’Conel, which should shoot several times in its hekanda heights. (Photo, photographer’s contribution by Trever Stamp)
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Photos and individual items related to bishop David O’conale are displayed in San Gabriel Mission on Saturday, February 24, 2024 to remember their lives in San Gabriel. The exhibition was opened to the public after a memorial mass for O’Conel, which should shoot several times in its hekanda heights. (Photo, photographer’s contribution by Trever Stamp)
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Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, Right, Saturday, Bishop David O’Conel leads a memorial mass at the San Gabriel Mission in San Gabriel on 24 February, 2024. Mass O’Conel follows a one -year anniversary of death, which was found that he should shoot several times in his Hasinda Heights. (Photo, photographer’s contribution by Trever Stamp)
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Photos and individual items related to bishop David O’conale are displayed in San Gabriel Mission on Saturday, February 24, 2024 to remember their lives in San Gabriel. The exhibition was opened to the public after a memorial mass for O’Conel, which should shoot several times in its hekanda heights. (Photo, photographer’s contribution by Trever Stamp)
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Hundreds of people attended a memorial mass for Bishop David O’Conel in San Gabriel Mission in San Gabriel on Saturday, 24 February, 2024. The month followed a one -year anniversary of O’Conel’s death, which was found that he should be shot several times in his habitual heights home. (Photo, photographer’s contribution by Trever Stamp)
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Photos and individual items related to bishop David O’conale are displayed in San Gabriel Mission on Saturday, February 24, 2024 to remember their lives in San Gabriel. The exhibition was opened to the public after a memorial mass for O’Conel, which should shoot several times in its hekanda heights. (Photo, photographer’s contribution by Trever Stamp)
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Monsignor Timothy Dior distributed Homili during a memorial mass for Bishop David O’Conel at San Gabriel Mission in San Gabriel on Saturday, February 24, 2024, as he follows the one year anniversary of O’Conal’s death, which should be shot several times in his havid heights. (Photo, photographer’s contribution by Trever Stamp)
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Archbishop Jose H. Gomez blessed an exhibition dedicated to Bishop David O’Conel at San Gabriel Mission in San Gabriel on Saturday, February 24, 2024. The exhibition was opened to the public after a memorial mass for O’Conal, which should be shot several times in its Hasenda Heights. (Photo, photographer’s contribution by Trever Stamp)
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Hundreds of people attended a memorial mass for Bishop David O’Conel in San Gabriel Mission in San Gabriel on Saturday, 24 February, 2024. The month followed a one -year anniversary of O’Conel’s death, which was found that he should be shot several times in his habitual heights home. (Photo, photographer’s contribution by Trever Stamp)
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Hundreds of people attended a memorial mass for Bishop David O’Conel in San Gabriel Mission in San Gabriel on Saturday, 24 February, 2024. The month followed a one -year anniversary of O’Conel’s death, which was found that he should be shot several times in his habitual heights home. (Photo, photographer’s contribution by Trever Stamp)
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Hundreds of people attended a memorial mass for Bishop David O’Conel in San Gabriel Mission in San Gabriel on Saturday, 24 February, 2024. The month followed a one -year anniversary of O’Conel’s death, which was found that he should be shot several times in his habitual heights home. (Photo, photographer’s contribution by Trever Stamp)
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Photos and individual items related to bishop David O’conale are displayed in San Gabriel Mission on Saturday, February 24, 2024 to remember their lives in San Gabriel. The exhibition was opened to the public after a memorial mass for O’Conel, which should shoot several times in its hekanda heights. (Photo, photographer’s contribution by Trever Stamp)
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Hundreds of people attended a memorial mass for Bishop David O’Conel in San Gabriel Mission in San Gabriel on Saturday, 24 February, 2024. The month followed a one -year anniversary of O’Conel’s death, which was found that he should be shot several times in his habitual heights home. (Photo, photographer’s contribution by Trever Stamp)
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The religious leads gather around the San Gabriel Mission around the Vedi as they lead a prayer during a memorial mass for Bishop David O’Conel in San Gabriel Mission on Saturday, February 24, 2024. Mass O’Conal follows a one -year anniversary of death, which should be shot several times in his Hasita. (Photo, photographer’s contribution by Trever Stamp)
During Homili in Saturday, MSGR. Timothy Dyer – O’Conel’s good friend and Pastor in St. Patrick’s Church of South La shared how many people can still remember the news of O’Conel’s death.
“Jesus and Dave O’Conle were not worried about the appearance,” Dyer said. “Like Jesus, Dave’s entire life was real. So we are here, we saw something. Dave did not care how he looked. He cared about whom he was watching. ,
It was focused on the other that Dyer said that O’Conel would be remembered for a long time.
“I won’t be here when Rome declares him a saint, he wisely takes a long time for a canonization,” Dyer said. “But our archbishop has said that he is in heaven and it is enough for me.”
The mass was a chance for many people in the state to publicly reflect publicly in a year since shooting.
“I miss my friend,” Ms. said. Jortha Kunne, the pastor of the St. Cornelius Catholic Church in the long beach. “This is not just one.”
A fellow Irish native, Quonne, who overlaps the young priests of O’conal in LA, said the late leader’s humor and compassion had a permanent impact on the initiative going on within the state.
“It is still very cute as to what impact Bishop Dave has made on everyone,” Nancy Nazerian-Medina said, who works in the San Gabriel Dehati Office.
He started working in the office after O’conal passed away, but said that “his soul is still very high in office and culture.”
Nazerion-Medina said that many people are moving forward with their missions to help people through their religious travel and other service work.
After the mass, a demonstration on O’Conel was nominated by Gomez. In the exhibition, the individual items of O’conal, such as pictures, notes, a book of jokes, a statue of the Bible, a statue of Virgin Mary, and a statue of more, people who can see on the mission on the operating hours regularly can share from Sunday to Sunday to 8 am.
“I think the bishop David is at home,” said Terry Hurta, director of the Mission Development at San Gabriel Mission. “He was a very big lawyer for Mission San Gabriel for the Mission’s community, for what we had completed.
“We are really respected, we feel privileged, it’s like having her home,” she said.
