the scent of roses
Apr 25, 2019
3 minutes
BY MARY LEA CARROLL, PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
ILLUSTRATION BY STEFANO VITALE
HOW PACKED this average-size church was on a Thursday night! Packed to capacity. Four hundred of us, I heard someone say. We squeezed in shoulder to shoulder. The aisles were jammed. I was lucky to get in.
A friend had told me about this event at Incarnation Catholic Church in Glendale, California. One of the visionaries from Medjugorje would lead those gathered in saying the rosary. I was vaguely familiar with the story of Medjugorje, but I’d dismissed it as just
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