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LIVE BLOG: Boston Marathon explosions & suspect search

Follow updates from news crews covering multiple explosions at the Boston Marathon.

3rd & 7 37yd

Rev. Walker: God is here, in the midst of this sacred gathering ... different faith ... strangers bound first by loss and pain ... we are gathered in community and through the blur of each other's tears ... we will rise in community.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:02:54 PM
Rev. Walker: This is how God works. Good morning.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:03:13 PM
Rev. Walker: God, help us find our way through the darkness. Help us hold each other now.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:03:57 PM
Rev. Walker: Lord, bless this brokenhearted city as she finds her balance, dusts herself off, and tilts her eyes back to the sky.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:04:37 PM
Rev. Walker: Let the people of God together say, "Amen".

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:04:57 PM
Rev Walker's words echoing off of the white walls at Stella's cafe, just down the street from the service. http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BIJIQ_NCcAAeQEn.jpg

by Wesley Lowery via twitter 4/18/2013 3:05:49 PM
There now is a greeting from Metropolitan Methodios of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Boston and Brookline.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:05:49 PM
Methodios: The Marathon was an event when we celebrated the values of freedom and democracy...it was on that day that evil reared its ugly head again.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:07:14 PM
Methodios: Bow our heads in solemn prayer for the repose of the souls of the three victims, and the countless victims who will bear wounds for the rest of their lives.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:08:13 PM
Methodios: For the doctors and nurses and other caregivers who helped and healed the wounded.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:08:41 PM
RT @Yamiche: Dozens of people at gathered in the gym of Cathedral High School watching the service on a projector. http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BIJHtHoCUAAhkIT.jpg

by Wesley Lowery via twitter 4/18/2013 3:09:08 PM
Now there will be a reflection by Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:09:13 PM
Menino stands to talk

by GlobeAndrewRyan via twitter 4/18/2013 3:09:51 PM
Menino: Good morning ... and it is a good morning because we are together.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:10:14 PM
RT @jrebosglobe: Mayor Menino stands at service, eschews wheelchair he has used since leaving hospital early.

by Milton Valencia via twitter 4/18/2013 3:10:28 PM
Just think: Had this tragedy happened a year from now, Menino's familiar voice wouldn't be the one Bostonians are hearing now. #vigil

by Wesley Lowery via twitter 4/18/2013 3:10:51 PM
Menino: Since the clock struck that fateful hour, love has covered this resilient city. I have never loved it more than I do today. (The mayor got choked up when he said those words.)

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:11:06 PM
Menino: We love the fathers and the brothers who took shirts off their backs to stop the bleeding. The mothers and the sisters who cared for the injured.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:11:50 PM
Menino: The neighbors who opened their doors, who said, "What's mine is yours."

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:12:10 PM
RT @BostonDotCom: BOMBING UPDATE: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says authorities are looking for public's help in locatin ...

by Milton Valencia via twitter 4/18/2013 3:13:15 PM
Menino praises police, firefighters, paramedics, doctors, and nurses: We have never loved our people in uniform more.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:13:22 PM
Mayor Menino grimaces in pain, pushing himself out of a wheelchair to stand and speak, symbolizing Boston's resilience

by GlobeAndrewRyan via twitter 4/18/2013 3:13:25 PM
Menino: Say prayer after prayer for the victims still recovering in hospitals and homes.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:13:46 PM
Patrick: Thankful for the nurses and doctors and the surgeon who ran the Marathon and then kept on running to his operating room.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:57:45 PM
Patrick: Thankful for Mayor Menino, who started Monday morning frustrated he couldn't be at the finish line this time as he always is, then later that afternoon checked himself out of the hospital so he could help this city, our city, recover.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:58:27 PM
Patrick: I'm thankful for the lives of Krystle, Lingzi, and little Martin.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 3:59:38 PM
Patrick: Darkness cannot drive out darkness, as Dr. King said. Only light can do that.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 4:00:10 PM
Patrick: Just as we are taught at times like this not to lose touch with our spiritual faith; let us not lose touch with our civic faith. Massachusetts invented America.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 4:00:50 PM
Patrick: We're not organized around a common heritage or language. We are organized around civic ideals.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 4:01:30 PM
Patrick: We will recover, and repair. We will grieve our losses and we will heal. We will rise and we will endure. We will have accountability without vengeance, vigilance without fear.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 4:02:42 PM
President Obama is preparing to speak.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 4:03:02 PM
Obama: Scripture tells us to run with endurance the race that is set before us.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 4:03:42 PM
Obama: On Monday morning, the sun rose over Boston. sunlight glistened off the State House dome, on the Common and Public Garden, spring was in bloom. Fans jumped onto the T to see the Sox at Fenway. In Hopkinton, runners laced up their shoes and set out on a 26.2-mile race that is a test of endurance and grit.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 4:05:14 PM
Obama: It was a great day to be in Boston. This city, a poet once said, is in the perfect state of grace.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 4:05:42 PM
Obama: We come together today to reclaim that state of grace.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 4:06:06 PM
Ed Ariel of Medfield: "We felt like we wanted to be a part of it." He and daughter were at 26-mile marker 15 mins before blast

by Martine Powers via twitter 4/18/2013 4:06:32 PM
Powerful intro from Deval Patrick: "The grace that tragedy exposed is the best of who we are." #vigil

by Wesley Lowery via twitter 4/18/2013 4:06:34 PM
Always better to edit a story with friends. Outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross #BostonMarathon http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BIJWZclCEAAjBfx.jpg

by Darren Durlach via twitter 4/18/2013 4:07:34 PM
Obama: Boston may be your hometown, but we claim it, too. It's one of America's iconic cities. It's one of the world's great cities.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 4:07:35 PM
Obama: Because Boston opens its heart to the world.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 4:07:48 PM
Obama: Every fall you welcome students from across the country and the world; a Boston diaspora that excels in every field of endeavor.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 4:08:35 PM
RT @GlobeMoskowitz: All of Joe's American Bar on Newbury turn to TV as president speaks http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BIJWkw9CUAE5c4J.jpg”

by Wesley Lowery via twitter 4/18/2013 4:09:33 PM
The poem President Obama referred to is from E.B. White's "Boston Is Like No Other Place In The World Only More So". The stanza is:

"For Boston's not a capital
And Boston's not a place
Rather I feel that Boston is
The perfect state of grace..."

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 4:10:21 PM
"For millions of us, what happened in Monday is personal....it's personal." - Obama #vigil

by Wesley Lowery via twitter 4/18/2013 4:11:15 PM
Obama: Today our prayers are with the Campbell family of Medford who lost their daughter Krystle. They are here today. She would have turned 30 next month. As her mother said through her tears, This doesn't make any sense.

by Teresa Hanafin 4/18/2013 4:12:00 PM