As the Saugus High School shooting upends a community known for safety and stability, religious leaders struggle to answer the question, 'why?'
, a group of preteens arrived at a Santa Clarita synagogue for their regular Thursday afternoon religious education class. They came with questions.
In reeling, grief-stricken Santa Clarita this week, it often fell to clergy to try to explain the seemingly unexplainable — the killing of two teenagers and wounding of three others by a classmate who then took his own life.One of those killed, Gracie Anne Muehlberger, 15, and two girls that were injured were part of a high school ministry at Real Life, a nondenominational Christian church with 7,000 congregants in the Santa Clarita area, according to a pastor.
“Safety and schools that are top ranked ... that’s why we live here,” Blazer said. “It hit at the core of the community.” In his Sunday sermon, he said, he planned to urge congregants to reject blame or quick fixes and embrace a three-step approach to “soul care” — breathe, mourn and pray.At one of Santa Clarita’s large Catholic parishes, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Msgr. Craig Cox called tragedies like the shooting “among the toughest of all things to preach on.”
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