Jul 23, 2012 / 11:11 am
Bishop James D. Conley of Denver delivered the invocation at a non-denominational Sunday evening vigil for the victims of the Aurora theater shooting, telling attendees to ask God for hope amid the "darkness" of the crime.
"All of us in this local community were affected by what happened here on Friday – and we will never be the same," he said July 22.
Bishop Conley, the auxiliary bishop of the Denver archdiocese, encouraged the crowd to remember that human lives are "precious in God's sight."
"Let us glorify God in our love for one another. Let us glorify God by responding to all violence with peace and to all evil with love," he said in his introductory remarks.