Messages are written on a couch at a memorial down the road from the Pulse nightclub
Messages are written on a couch at a memorial down the road from the Pulse nightclub (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Church bells rang in downtown Orlando and patrons at nightclubs paused for a moment at 2 a.m. to commemorate the shooting deaths of 49 victims at the Pulse gay nightclub exactly a week ago.

At church services and at a vigil planned for later Sunday around Lake Eola in the heart of downtown Orlando, residents remembered the victims of the worse mass shooting in modern U.S. history.

At the Joy Metropolitan Community Church, the Rev. Terry Steed Pierce told her largely gay congregation that survivor guilt was haunting some Pulse patrons who had made it out alive but had lost friends.

Pierce says she has heard of one man who committed suicide this week. He lost two of his friends to the massacre and he survived.

She says people need to rally around those who survived the massacre.

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