However, the public outpouring in the community was so great that the Rosary service and funeral will be open to the public.

Weekly Masses, rosary services, and reconciliation are available for students and faculty.

Gonzalez said the school's sophomore class had a prayer service Monday and officials planned a rosary service for the entire school later in the week.

A woman who described herself as the mother of one of Garcia's friends told the newspaper at a rosary service that his family are "very nice people."

An estimated 30,000 Portuguese people live in the Newark area, and observances ranging from devotional rosary services to processions are expected.

On Wednesday nights, Ms. Kopreski, a schoolteacher, leads a rosary service for whoever shows up at the shrine.

About 20 parishioners braved 10-degree temperatures to gather on the church steps tonight for the first of five candlelight rosary services they plan to hold one hour a day for five days.

More than 1,000 relatives and friends of the 29 people killed by a tornado last week in the nearby town of Saragosa filled a school gymnasium for a rosary service tonight for the victims.

A funeral mass was held at St. Theresa's Church, with a rosary service at Edwards Brothers Colonial Mortuary, Venice Boulevard, in Los Angeles, California.

(CNN) -- A Rosary service and funeral were scheduled this week for Jaime Zapata, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent who was killed in Mexico last week.

The crowds also filled the 2,300-seat pews to overflowing for a morning Mass in Spanish, for an afternoon Mass in English that was organized for children and disabled people, and later for vespers and rosary services.

Leonor Garcia, center, mother of slain University of Arkansas-Little Rock student Patricia Guardado, holds her twin daughters as the student's father, Martin Guardado, looks on during a rosary service at St. Edwards Catholic Church in Little Rock, Ark., on Monday.

FOR the first few Wednesdays after her husband died last month, Marie Dandrea skipped the evening rosary services scheduled at the shrine they had founded on the farm here where he was born - a stark white stucco and steel triangle that pierces the sky like a sailboat blown far inland.