'We're in this together'

Instead of the usual choir, Mass started with a loud whistle blow about 15 minutes behind schedule, while locals swapped stories of survival and loss.

"Forgive me if I get choked up, but I want to thank you," Rev. Dennis Carver told the congregation. "We're in this together; we pray together and we love together."

Many of the churchgoers carried their own chairs. The wooden church pews and brick walls are gone, likely mixed into the rubble pile from the parish elementary school behind the church.

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