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At the bakery

After a church service, I went to a nearby bakery to buy some bread. Unexpectedly, I met the sacristan of the church there, who was buying a delicious bread roll for herself. Standing in the queue, she pointed to one of the shop assistants and let me know that she had asked for a rosary. On the way home from church, I remembered a motto for the day that we had lived by with young people in Sarajevo at the beginning of this millennium and that had created a real dynamic: "Uviek i odmah!" (always and immediately). All the faces of the young people appeared before my inner eye and I felt such joy in my heart that when I got home, I packed my most beautiful rosary from Bethlehem and brought it to her in the small village. When I gave the little parcel to the shop assistant, I looked into her smiling eyes.