WEST WARREN, Mass. -- Family and friends of missing Warren, Mass., lifeguard Molly Bish marked the one-year anniversary of her disappearance with a church service and candlelight vigil.

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A mass was held Wednesday morning at St. Stanislaus Church in West Warren.

"We are here to remember. It's a mass of remembrance," Father John Michael Lizewski said. We are a people of hope. If anything, that's what our Catholic Christian faith keeps reinforcing us with. It is hope."

After receiving communion, one-by-one, the parish filed by the Bish family in the church and offered their support.

"It hurts when I think what she had to go through. I am guilty that I could not protect her," Molly Bish's sister Heather Bish said. "I am sorry for not acting like the heroes in the movies and saving her. I am devastated."

"We have memories of her everywhere," Molly Bish's mother Magi Bish said. "But most important in our hearts. Molly touched all of us. She made us more than who we though we could be."

A candlelight vigil was held at 7 p.m. at the town common.