This year too, the Daughters of St. Paul of Bucharest traveled to Cacica, Romania’s most important Marian shrine, located in the diocese of Iasi in the northern part of the country, to celebrate the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Catholics from many parishes in the diocese and also from other dioceses gather at the Shrine each year for this feast in order to venerate its icon of Mary, pray together, petition the Blessed Mother for their needs, reconcile themselves with the Lord, and express their gratitude for graces received.
Our sisters spent two days in the midst of the faithful, praying with them, sleeping in a tent like many others, and evangelizing the people by means of a book display offering an abundance of titles chosen to help the pilgrims grow in faith. Some of them seek out the sisters every year to find good books and also to receive a spiritual “vitamin pill” in the form of a rolled-up tube of paper containing a thought from the Bible, which the sisters offer to everyone who visits their stand.
