This is the source of our confidence.On this earth where two-thirds of humankind today suffer hunger and malnutrition, where the rights of man are scoffed at, where injustices are found at our very door, where each day the risk of total destruction increases, will we know how to be attentive to what Pope John XXIII lately called ‘the signs of the times’? “We were drinking her words”, they would say later, adding, “she wept all the time she spoke to us”.“Come near, my children, be not afraid; I am here to tell you great news.“For how long a time do I suffer for you!
Our Lady of La Salette (French: Notre-Dame de La Salette) is a Marian apparition reported by two children, Maximin Giraud and Mélanie Calvat to have occurred at La Salette-Fallavaux, France, in 1846.
Hence, first thing in the morning, the two children descended to the village of La Salette to tell their story to the pastor, Father Jacques Perrin. “We looked for a long time”, added Melanie, “to see if we could not have another glimpse of her”, but the Beautiful Lady had disappeared forever.The little shepherdess then remarked to her companion: “Perhaps it was a great Saint”. Mary brings it home to us once again: let us follow her discourse step by step.Modeling herself on the risen Jesus, Mary comes to us as a messenger of peace – that peace which the "great news" brings, for it is none other than the Good News of the Gospel. Written by Frs. A knock at the rectory door brought the priest’s housekeeper, a kind but inquisitive spinster.
Her love renders her attentive to their religious indifference and their sins, but also to their worries and hopes. On the contrary, when you found the potatoes spoilt, you swore, you took the name of my Son in vain. He did not advertise his real purpose but would casually drop in at the Pra’s house for a friendly visit. As Maximin put it, “She was like a mama whom her own children had beaten and who had escaped to the mountain to weep.” The beautiful Lady was tall and seemed to be made of light. How do we honor “the day which God has reserved for himself”, the day when one stands face to face with God? Perhaps, rather, we should say that is a demanding word: it is not a question of alienating our freedom, but of placing us under Christ's leadership, of communing with his will. “We saw her head no more, then the rest of the body no more; she seemed to melt away. He is present whenever we share our bread with others, when it is distributed to hungry children...Wherever life is given, the Father, the source of life, is there.The missionary dimension is essential to Christianity and Our Lady recalls this to us.
Her garments, like those of Christ on the mount of the Transfiguration, are likewise resplendent with light: her headdress, robe, long apron and peasant woman's shawl.All the light comes from the large crucifix she bears on her breast.
Maximin thought only of defending himself. Our precarious situations, the restricted duration of our lives have, however, a reverse positive side: they are so many motives calling for our conversion, summoning us to take up the following of Christ, to live even now that new life which he lived until Calvary and whose resurrection is both a guarantee and a coming to full bloom of that life. In their eagerness to join her again, they ran across the brook and were with her in a moment. They said they must see the priest. They would simply call her “the Beautiful Lady”.The beautiful Lady now stood up while the children remained transfixed where they were. The Blessed Virgin speaks the language of her people.She speaks the language of the peasants of Dauphiny in 1846. “Keep your stick”, he said to her, “I will keep mine and will give it a good whack if it does anything to us” ...Even after she conversed with them, the children could not identify their heavenly Visitor. Thus, in the company of Maximin and Melanie, the Lady moved along, gliding over the tips of the grass without touching it, until she reached the top of the hillock where the children, after their sleep, had gone to look after their cows. Maximin, more communicative, spoke at once to the assembled Pra family about the Beautiful Lady. How long their slumber lasted is not certain – half an hour perhaps, or three quarters of an hour or possibly more. Before the famine comes, the children under seven years of age will be seized with trembling and will die in the hands of those who hold them; the others will do penance by the famine. Please enable the javascript to submit this form The walnuts will become bad, and the grapes will rot.”Here the Beautiful Lady addressed the children separately, confiding to each a secret.
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