By Patric Hedlund

If you feel gratitude for this week’s rain that moistened the thirsty forest around us, give a silent nod to a local group of women who meet each morning to say a prayer for our community. They pray for an end to the drought, for the health of their families, for the success of local businesses, for the end of war…and for immigration reform.

These members of Our Lady of the Snows Catholic Church are your neighbors. The group has been meeting every….(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Above, a prayer circle that meets daily in Frazier Park.

Left, Erika Alvarez with her son Yurem de Jeronimo, 3; Center, Armida Calderon and Maria Carrillo give the rosaries to Yurem to put away (right) in the prayer basket, while the women talk about their lives here.

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Lebec
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This is part of the December 5, 2014 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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