Connecticut high school lacrosse player James McGrath laid to rest after Trumbull funeral Mass

The Connecticut funeral Mass for James “Jimmy” McGrath began at 11 a.m. Friday.

Gannon also invoked a line from McGrath’s father, Kevin McGrath, who noted the beautiful weather just days earlier when his son’s Fairfield College Preparatory School lacrosse teammates took the field in their first game after the tragedy, squaring off against Shelton High School, where the slain teen had many friends and where his sister is a senior.

"Kevin, you told everybody at the Shelton-Prep game that you felt like Jimmy had interceded and gotten us good weather," he said. "I think there’s something to that, what you’re feeling, that I hope all of us can feel, is that you are surrounded by Jimmy’s love."