Mourners meet in silence to honour those lost on MH17

By Tony Wright
Updated August 8 2014 - 8:13am, first published August 7 2014 - 4:35pm
Time for faith: A woman places a sprig of wattle in the cathedral's wreath in honour of the fallen. Photo: Eddie Jim
Time for faith: A woman places a sprig of wattle in the cathedral's wreath in honour of the fallen. Photo: Eddie Jim
United in loss: Three of the mourners at Melbourne's St Patrick's Cathedral on Thursday.  Photo: Eddie Jim
United in loss: Three of the mourners at Melbourne's St Patrick's Cathedral on Thursday. Photo: Eddie Jim
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and their wives attending the service.  Photo: Eddie Jim
Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten and their wives attending the service. Photo: Eddie Jim

It was not the fine words of the nation’s leaders, the prayers of religious men and women from the faiths of the world, nor even the swelling of the great organ’s pipes or the voices of the Australian Boys' Choir, The Lord is My Shepherd floating up among the high arches, that brought the congregation to a silence deeper than a valley.

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