Most Reverend Richard Lennon, Bishop of Cleveland briefly spoke about the rescue of three Cleveland women all missing for more than a decade who escaped from a house on the city's westside on the evening of May 6, 2013.
Click play to watch Bishop's remarks Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michele Knight were rescued after Miss Berry was assisted in her escape from the residence on Seymour Avenue.
Amanda Berry disappeared at age 16 in April of 2003, Gina DeJesus disappeared at age 14 in 2004, and Michele Knight was 20 when she was reported missing in 2000. All three were held captive. The home owner and two relatives are now under arrest.
The Cleveland community has long remembered the missing women with prayer vigils and other hope-filled activities through the past decade.
"I invite all of us to join in a prayer of thanksgiving and support for those young women, and also to pray for people who are missing, that they may have the strength of the virtue of hope and that their families also may never give up hope as the relatives of these three young women experienced," said Bishop Lennon.
Bishop Lennon, who had just concluded a "Year of Faith" lecture following the noon Mass on Wednesday, May 8, made the following prayerful and hopeful remarks inside the Cathedral of Saint John the Evangelist in downtown Cleveland.