DEBORAH POTTER, guest anchor: Almost a year after the Virginia Tech shootings, families of the victims have reached a tentative settlement with the state to prevent future lawsuits. The $11 million agreement involves a substantial majority of the families, according to Virginia's governor. Some students at Virginia Tech are marking the anniversary of the shootings with a new CD. It grew out of a Mass of healing they attended at the Catholic campus ministry on that awful night.

BRYAN SCHAMUS (Student, Virginia Tech University): This journey started on April 16 after we found out at least 20 people had been killed, and we just sort of stared and looked at each other, and started some conversation about what we could possibly do as a community at this point. And we proceeded then to have Mass each night that whole week, and every night we sang, for the most part, the same set of songs.

Father JOHN GRACE (Catholic Campus Minister, Newman Community, Virginia Tech University): I was in Chicago and, like everybody else in the country, we saw the news, what happened here at Virginia Tech -- the tragedy and the shooting and the violence. I immediately started hearing lots of praise and gratitude for those students that helped organize and pull together this community.

BRYAN: Never could I have realized what I was picking, or what we picked that day. We're still talking about these six songs a year later.

LAURA SCHAMUS (Student, Virginia Tech University): The music was our prayer and our way of bringing everyone together and uniting everybody.

ANDY SOWELL (Student, Virginia Tech University): It was power, powerful, because I've never really at any time felt God's presence that close as I did then.

Fr. GRACE: The theme that coming through over and over and over again was the power of the music. Students made choices in terms of their songs.

LAURA: It used to be that when, you know, I heard the songs it would be sadness, because that was what it first was. But now these songs for me represent hope and comfort and love.

Fr. GRACE: It seemed to me that this was a unique opportunity to record that music, because this music means so much not just to this group of students who went through April 16, but to anyone else who hears it. Those voices communicated essentially what the faith means and the Paschal mystery -- the suffering, death, and resurrection of Christ as seen now and lived out here on the campus of Virginia Tech.

BRYAN: Every time someone asks us, "Oh, where did you go to college?" and you say Virginia Tech, they're, like, "Oh, were you there?" "Yeah." We'll always have this physical thing in the CD, and we'll say, "Look. Yeah, I was there. This is what I did."

Fr. GRACE: I want people to know that in this community there is a thriving, alive faith community, a Catholic identity that understands that death exists, violence exists, and the cross exists, but so does hope, resurrection, and life.

BRYAN: I'm hopeful that the CD will convey life over death.

LAURA: Faith.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE STUDENT: Peace.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE STUDENT: Love.

ANDY: I'm hoping this CD will convey perseverance.