Over President’s Day weekend, I visited South Bend and got a chance to visit the Grotto on the Notre Dame campus.

It was lightly snowing, and snow covered the Grotto and the benches, even putting out the candles that had been lit on the right side of the cave.

A thick layer of snow covered every surface… except for the kneeling bench in front of the Grotto, kept clean by a steady stream of prayers. Even in the cold, people kept coming to send up prayers before the statue of Our Lady.