New York News

Officers Remembered One Month Later

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NYPD chaplain Msgr. David Cassato celebrated a Month’s Mind Mass for slain Detectives Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu on Sunday, Jan. 17, at St. Athanasius Church, Bensonhurst. Members of the families were represented, with 200 police officers also in attendance. Below, members of the Ramos family pray the Our Father with the congregation. Msgr. Cassato, who led the church in singing “Let There Be Peace on Earth” and “We Shall Overcome,” said that it is “from the blood of martyrs that the seeds of peace” will be sown.