Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop David G. O’Connell, a beloved non secular chief who was slain in his Hacienda Heights residence final week, will likely be honored at a Sunday prayer service in Anaheim.
Archbishop José H. Gomez will preside over the Orange County service, which can happen at this 12 months’s Non secular Training Congress, an annual four-day gathering of Catholics sponsored by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. The service will begin at 11:30 a.m. on the Anaheim Conference Heart and is open to everybody attending the gathering. Others can tune in to the service on-line.
O’Connell, 69, who served as a priest and bishop in L.A. County for practically half a century, was discovered shot to loss of life at his residence within the 1500 block of Janlu Avenue on the afternoon of Feb. 18, authorities mentioned.
In an announcement after O’Connell’s loss of life, Gomez known as the bishop a “man of deep prayer” and “a peacemaker with a coronary heart for the poor and the immigrant.”
Gómez mentioned O’Connell had a “ardour for constructing a group the place the sanctity and dignity of each human life was honored and guarded. He was additionally a very good good friend, and I’ll miss him significantly. I do know all of us will.”
Carlos Medina, a handyman whose spouse labored as O’Connell’s housekeeper, has been charged together with his homicide. Regulation enforcement officers haven’t but disclosed a motive. Dist. Atty. George Gascón condemned O’Connell’s slaying as a “brutal act of violence in opposition to an individual who devoted his life to creating our neighborhoods safer, more healthy and at all times served with love.”
O’Connell earned the title of bishop in 2015, in response to the archdiocese’s web site.
O’Connell, who was born in 1953 in County Cork, Eire, was named an auxiliary bishop for the archdiocese by Pope Francis in 2015. He studied for the priesthood at All Hallows Faculty in Dublin and was ordained to serve within the archdiocese in 1979.
For 14 years, O’Connell was pastor at St. Frances X. Cabrini in South Los Angeles, and have become pastor of close by Ascension. He oversaw not solely two congregations of roughly 4,000 households every, but in addition two colleges that between them serve about 500 pupils in kindergarten by means of eighth grade.
Memorial and funeral providers are scheduled this week in Los Angeles.
On Wednesday,a memorial Mass will likely be held at St. John Vianney Catholic Church at 7 p.m.
On Thursday, there will likely be a public viewing on the Cathedral of Our Woman of the Angels from 10 a.m. to midday and from 1 to six p.m. A Vigil Mass will likely be held at 7 p.m.
On Friday, a funeral Mass will likely be held on the Cathedral of Our Woman of the Angels.
All occasions will likely be livestreamed on the web site for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
