OneLife speakers invite Angelenos to find hope in LA’s ‘trial by fire’
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At last year’s OneLife LA event, it rained so much that attendees were thoroughly soaked. At this year’s event, participants prayed for even a few drops to fall — anything to help combat the still-burning wildfires that had ripped through so much of Southern California.
The specter of the lingering wildfires hung in the air as thousands gathered at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on Jan. 18 for the 11th annual OneLife LA celebration and Requiem Mass for the Unborn.
“Our people have suffered many trials by fire this week,” Bishop Joseph Brennan of Fresno, formerly an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, said in his opening prayer. “But after this trial by fire, we know that we rise from the ashes to new life and to a hopefulness that can only come from you and being absolutely convinced of your love for us and the power of that love to change us and transform us and sustain us.”