When you come back from Medjugorje (1), you are drunk with joy, you sing hymns to the Virgin Mary loudly in the office, and you share your experience with everyone.
The feeling of embarrassment about the taboo subject of religion is gone.
And, to my astonishment, some people tell you that they've heard about Medjugorje, from other lunatics, and are interested in this madness! For a week, you radiate your inner joy into the workplace.
And afterwards?
Then, an intimacy, a complicity, an innate trust in God seems to cling to you.
How long will it last? A long time I think. If it goes away, it won’t be intentionally because of me. And certainly not because of Him.
Thank you Mary, for leading me to Medj. I went there by chance, and I don't regret it.
Clarence
(1) Međugorje is a town in Bosnia-Herzegovina that has become a Marian shrine and Catholic pilgrimage site since the Virgin Mary first appeared on the “hill of apparitions” in 1981, to four young visionaries. Apparitions are less frequent today, but some visionaries still receive messages from the Virgin Mary for the world. Mary presented herself there under the title of “Our Lady of Peace”.