SCRANTON -- A prayer vigil is set for Monday at the University of Scranton to remember victims of terror attacks.
Students, staff, and members of the community are not only praying for the victims in Paris, but also for victims of ISIS attacks in Lebanon and Iraq.
Among those taking part in this vigil is a young woman from France, currently teaching and learning at the university and watching the terror unfold at home.
As she watches and reads about the news of terror in Paris, Celine Langlard has had several days filled with fear, sadness, and hope for her homeland thousands of miles away.
"It's like one of my family members have been attacked. It's here. I can't describe it. It's my country which has been attacked," said Langlard.
Langlard is a Fulbright scholar this year at the University of Scranton. She was going about her normal day on campus Friday as a French language instructor and American history student. But her normalcy here was shattered by an attack in Paris in a part of the city she knows well. Now she struggles knowing a friend there and her family in the French countryside are so close to all this.
"I don't like that feeling, but I'm scared for the people who I love that are living there."
And it's difficult being so far away.
"This weekend it was really hard because you want to do something; you want to show your support. I would just go in the street and show my support."
But while people were publicly mourning in France, there weren't those opportunities here this weekend. She didn't get to gather with a group to comfort each other.
She was very pleased, though, when she got a flyer that a prayer service would be held at the University of Scranton, and that does come after a weekend of people on campus reaching out to her.
"I've been heartened by the support for them. It may be little things but for me, I felt supported by the students by some of the professors."
Celine Langlard says she has learned from her time at the University of Scranton, and especially since the attacks Friday, that Americans and the French share many of the same values. She says that has been comforting
