He thanked parish staff and members of the parish community — as well as those that brought them food during the attack.
“Christianity has a lot of traditions within it that we receive from our Jewish brothers and sisters,” he added. “And one thing that really highlighted that yesterday was that we were deluged with food.”
“All of that is to point out that there is a lot of good and there’s a lot of good that goes on behind the scenes that’s not celebrated,” he concluded. “Too often we focus only on the negative things and we don’t celebrate all the positive things.”
He credited the example of the faith of the Blessed Mother.
“I can’t say that I’m more proud of what this community was able to do,” he added.
As soon as all of the hostages were declared safe, Bishop Michael F. Olson of Fort Worth took to Twitter to thank God and the local Catholic church led by Higgins.
“Thank you to the parishioners of [Good Shepherd] and their pastor Fr. Michael Higgins, TOR, for their assistance and charitable support for first responders and families of hostages,” he tweeted.
The bishop retweeted Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory of Washington, who also expressed gratitude.
“We thank God for the safety of the members of Beth Israel in Texas,” the cardinal wrote. “Thanks also for the successful work of those public safety officials. We stand with our Jewish neighbors as they confront violence. May all who suffer hatred in their places of worship know of our prayers.”
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