From Two Charged With Defacing Md. Shrine
Sheriff's deputies charged the 20-year-olds after university police allegedly caught them in the act early Sunday morning.
Catholic ping!
That's pure, calculated hatred.
Dreadful.
you have to really go out of your way to get up to that cross - especially this time of the year with the weather conditions.
Wonder what it was that motivated them to go all the way up there just to make trouble.
There was a large youth retreat there this past weekend: ‘’Mount 2008 - Seek the Face of Christ.”
That might explain the presence of a couple of 20 year olds from Silver Spring.
My daughter was there and didn’t say anything about any vandalism to the Grotto. But there were about 1,500 kids there this weekend.
At my Catholic high school, we set up enough small crosses to fill the grassy area in front of the school. And on the sign out front, the words “Abortion stops a beating heart.”
That was too much to take for one poor soul who decided to drive his/her vehicle through the crosses, knocking them down and scattering them in all directions, and finished things off by splattering black paint on the sign.
As I recall, the police may have been involved in figuring out who did it. But we simply cleaned up, set the crosses back up again, and moved on. The best thing we can do is clean up and pray for the poor lost soul who would do such a thing, and for that matter also pray for all the lost souls who would consider doing such a thing but didn’t have the nerve to do it.
here’s a link with a photo of the grotto...
I might be confusing which cross they vandalized.
It sounds like they tried to burn one of the altars in the cave where all the candles are.
There must have been a large crucifix in there that got dumped into the nearby creek.
They were doing this at 3:00 am.
The kindest words I can find (the rest I cannot say on this forum) for these two are: low, common, no-count gutter trash.
They should pay for fixing it all up.