>People turn to church a decade after 9/11 attacks
By The Record
HACKENSACK, N.J. – In ornate sanctuaries and simple chapels, with soaring anthems and moments of silence, worshipers across New Jersey and the country last weekend remembered the dead, consoled the living and sought to find meaning in the unfathomable losses of a decade ago.
Many Christians were in church at 8:46, 9:03, 9:37 and 10:03 a.m. Sunday – the times when planes hit the towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the ground in Shanksville, Pa., 10 years ago.
“I just felt it was the right thing to do, to go to church and bring my daughter today. I felt it was the right place to be,” said Christine Mainwald of Wyckoff’s Grace United Methodist Church, who wore a T-shirt “in lasting memory” of a lost firefighter…
“Each year we have a Mass of Remembrance for all the victims, but most especially for the 10 members of our parish community who died that day,” said Monsignor Ronald J. Rozniak, pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church in Ridgewood, where the death toll ranks among the highest of any American church…
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