WESTPORT — Around 50 people joined representatives of the Interfaith Clergy Association of Westport and Weston for a vigil Sunday afternoon on Veterans Green in memory of the 21 victims of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, last week.
“Here we are again,” Alison Patton, pastor with Saugatuck Congregational Church, told the gathering. “This practice, this gathering in an interfaith vigil, it has become too familiar has it not?”
“Our hearts crack open again,” she said. “We find ourselves un-tethered and that’s why we find ourselves gathering.”
Along with group prayers and songs, the gathering also invited people to write down their thoughts and feelings about the situation on flag of cloth, which were hung on the fence opposite Town Hall.
Rabbi Jeremy Wiederhorn of The Conservative Synagogue said that people should not be resigned to things unfolding as they have been.
“We have to find a way to learn how to speak to one another again … to grow together (and) to find a way to protect and save our children,” he said.
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