Boys from Berezhany correctional facility visit Zarvanytsia

Inmates of the Berezhany juvenile correctional facility who went on a pilgrimage to the Marian Spiritual Center in Zarvanytsia feel pardoned by God. Arriving at the miraculous place, the pilgrims visited the parish church where they were able to hear the story of Zarvanytsia and to pray to the wonderworking icon of Our Lady.  The boys also drank water from a healing spring. After visiting and praying in the churches, the inmates ate a delicious lunch prepared by the seminarians of Ternopil Higher Theological Seminary. "It is impossible to express this spiritual exaltation that the boys felt during the entire time they spent in Zarvanytsia. I am sure that this visit will stay in their memories and hearts for a long time, if not for their entire lives … Because the children came to visit their Mother ...They were free again ... They felt confident, they felt that they were ‘pardoned by God,’” said the organizers of the pilgrimage.  

Reported by Brother Roman Demush