CSF October/November 2022: Local News

Archbishop to first responders: “We thank you.”

Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone took the occasion of the annual SF Police Fire Sheriff Memorial Mass to thank the first responders who protect and serve San Francisco.

“You my dear brothers and sisters are the force of order in our city,” Archbishop Cordileone said at the Mass at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption held on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. “We thank you for the great risks you take with your lives every day, every day to ensure order and our protection,” Archbishop Cordileone told the assembled men and

women in uniform before blessing the first responders’ stars and shields with holy water.

The memorial Mass honors those who have died in the previous year, and all first responders in San Francisco. The Mass was first offered in 1947, following the Herbert Hotel fire that killed four firefighters.