From Staten Island-Staten Islanders of different religions came together yesterday to pray for the victims of Hurricane Sandy and the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., finding common ground in their grief and in their faith that the darkness of those events wouldn't overcome the light in the world.
"We can all agree on the unassailable reality that light dispells darkness, both metaphorically and literally," the Rev. Roy Cole of St. John's Episcopal Church, Rosebank, said Sunday.
Father Cole was one of many clergy members present at an interfaith service at Holy Rosary R.C. Church, South Beach, where the light shined in the form of dozens of tiny candles, carried mostly by children, serving as symbols for each of the 24 Staten Islanders killed by Sandy and the 26 children and educators of Sandy Hook Elementary School slain in Connecticut by gunman Adam Lanza.
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http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/01/for_many_staten_islanders_fait.html
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