Parishioners filled up the Park Street Church on the corner of Park and Tremont streets in Boston early Sunday morning for 8:30 a.m. mass, where the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., was mentioned numerous times. Parishioners prayed for the families, victims, and any others affected by what was called “the massacre of innocence.”

Afterward, church-goers socialized, picked up their children, and discussed the sermon.