I don’t think that there are enough words to describe the way John has touched so many people’s lives. I did not know John personally but have followed his story in the paper, on television, etc. He touched my life in a way that we need to treat every single day as a Gift from God because at the end of the day, it truly is. And our time on earth here is only determined by one, God.

Thank you John for your messages about life, for being so positive and so strong in your faith. It is reflected in so many others what you have done. God surely is congratulating you on a job well Done..To me, your a hero, a role model of what more people should be like every day!!!

God Bless you always and forever..and may God watch over your famly during this difficult time..

I first “met” John while watching the Pen’s game he attended during the cup finals. I’m a Pittsburgh native living in Minnesota and have been trying to keep up on his life happenings. I have been praying daily for him from the night I watched your beautiful, wonderful, charismatic son on television. He was not only an inspiration, he was an apostle on earth spreading God’s message. We never know why an “angel” is taken at such a young age, but John seemed to know God’s plan. My faith has become stronger after traumas in my life and the deaths of my parents, yet the strength of his Catholic faith at his young age drops me to my knees and makes me know I have much further to go. You should be so proud to have raised such a fine young man. As the prayer I said for John every night ends, he is in “the joy of eternal glory in His loving embrace” and deservedly so. May God Bless your family.