Fire-ravaged Altadena hosts national pilgrims for Mass, Eucharistic procession
It could be compared to walking through a graveyard.
Where once there were homes, now there were empty lots, trees still scorched black, and remnants of blackened block walls. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers placards dotted the landscape like headstones.
But in the midst of what felt like death and destruction in fire-ravaged Altadena, a spiritual sign of life appeared the evening of Friday, June 20: a monstrance containing the Eucharist carried through the streets in one of the final Eucharistic processions of the 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage.