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I am full of admiration for the work that the Franciscans do there . With a relatively small team - they are a dozen - they do a huge job of welcoming pilgrims. All summers organize a youth festival. This year there were 50 thousand young people from all over the world, with more than 700 priests.The confessions are massive. They have about fifty confessionals, which are not enough. They are very deep confessions.This is a phenomenon. And what confirms the authenticity of the place is the large number of charitable institutions that exist around the sanctuary . And another dimension: the great effort that is carried out at the level of Christian formation. Every year they organize congresses at different levels, for different audiences (priests, doctors, parents, young people, couples ...)The decree of the former Episcopal Conference of Yugoslavia of a time, which before the Balkan war advised against the bishops organizing pilgrimages to Medjugorje, is no longer in place.
What I find touching is that all the visionaries have turned towards family life. In the age in which we live, the family has enormous importance. Everyone lives in the family. Those who were teenagers at the time are already grandmothers: 37 years have flown away!
.Americanism goes global. American tourists to the Medge-zone cut their teeth on Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.What can you expect?."Faith" is a fine inventionWhen Gentlemen can see—But Microscopes are prudentIn an Emergency. Emily Dickinson.'Heavenly Father'—take to theeThe supreme iniquityFashioned by thy candid HandIn a moment contraband—Though to trust us—seems to usMore respectful—'We are Dust'—We apologize to theeFor thine own Duplicity— Emily Dickinson.''And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.''Walt Whitman.''Rugged, mountainous, volcanic, he was himself more a French revolution than any of his volumes.''Walt Whitman