Dauphin, Man. church community prays for healing after ‘horrific’ crash | 24CA News
Dauphin’s church neighborhood is backing the households and family members of the victims of Thursday’s bus crash close to Carberry, Man., that resulted in tragedy.
Father Brent Kuzyk led parishioners by way of Sunday service at St. George’s Ukranian Orthodox Church, the place among the victims as soon as prayed.
“Because of the horrific scale of this tragedy it’s been difficult on everyone,” he stated Sunday morning.
Kuzyk ensures the neighborhood is aware of each one that was within the minibus, which collided with a semi-truck on the Trans-Canada Highway and killed 15, or is aware of somebody who does.
The proximity of the tragedy has individuals turning to religion.
“Without faith there is absolutely no step toward the future, no step toward understanding, no step toward putting everything into perspective,” Kuzyk stated.
The priest stated the church is at all times there to assist information parishioners, and convey motive and understanding to them within the wake of tragic occasions.
Rona Kamfoly, a member of the church, is aware of solely time will heal the neighborhood’s wounds.
“The people here, they lost their mothers, they lost their fathers, they lost their loved ones,” she stated.
“It’ll take time.”
Kamfoly is just not solely mourning the lack of the individuals who misplaced their lives, however the knowledge they carried with them.
“A whole generation is gone.”
One recognized sufferer, Nettie Nakonechny, left behind generations of household.
A press release from her granddaughter writes Nakonechny leaves behind eight grandkids and 5 great-grandkids.
“She was an amazing, mother, auntie and friend to anyone who met her loved (her),” Teah Alexander wrote to Global News, including the impression her baba had on many individuals’s lives is “unmatched.”
Because Dauphin is a comparatively tight-knit neighborhood, St. George’s parishioner Doris Dunfield is all however sure she’ll know every one that rode within the minibus as names start to floor.
“It’s going to affect the community for a very long time,” she stated.
Janice Mullen, a St. George’s member who moved away from the neighborhood however not too long ago returned, stated to honour the victims is to respect and keep in mind them. Her godmother was one of many 15 killed.
“We’re Dauphin strong.”
— with information from Global News’ Marney Blunt
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