la salette apparition
For those who are particularly sensible to symbols, everything has already been said: Christ crucified and risen, Mary's role with regard to believers, our combats and our refusals, and our day-to-day lives needing to be transfigured.That is indeed what the beautiful lady comes to recall to us in her message. “If we had known it was a great Saint”, said Maximin, “we would have asked her to take us with her”.At dusk, a little earlier than usual, the children brought back their herds to the hamlet of Ablandins nestling on the mountainside below. The Catholic Church, taught by the Holy Spirit, honors her with filial affection and devotion as a most beloved Mother” (Ibidem, 53).“The entire body of the faithful pours forth urgent supplications to the Mother of God and our Mother that she, who aided the beginnings of the Church by her prayers, may now, exalted as she is above all the angels and saints, intercede before her Son in the fellowship of all the saints...” (Ibidem, 69).Our Lady specifies two refusals of her people: “the two things which make the arm of my Son so heavy”.The Seventh Day. He returned to La Salette, won over by the amazing self-assurance, candor and tenacity of the boy. So, that evening Melanie was made to tell the story one more time, but now very slowly, so that Pra could get every word down on paper.
Monday morning M. Peytard descended to Corps to question Maximin. At the slightest misfortune do we not tend to impute to God responsibility for our adversities, forgetting our own responsibilities: when confronted with a trial, do we not egoistically close in on ourselves in a revolt without hope? At La Salette the Virgin does not turn us away from reality; on the contrary she urges us to look squarely at what is happening around us: ruined crops, potatoes that are rotting, wheat turning into dust, empty nutshells, grapes decaying on the vine, famine and epidemics.
Fully reassured by these words the children hurried to meet her.
Then she turned reproachfully to her young son James: “You have heard what the Blessed Virgin said - go now and work again on Sunday!” “Bah”, came the retort, “you will make me believe that this little one has seen the Blessed Virgin, she who does not even say her prayers!”“But that night”, declared Melanie later, “I remained a long time on my knees although I hardly knew any prayers by heart”.It was eventually decided that this affair was something to be submitted to the Church. Maximin thought only of defending himself. Then came Melanie's turn to receive her secret under like conditions. But his voice was choked with emotion and his words were unintelligible save by someone who already knew the story. A knock at the rectory door brought the priest’s housekeeper, a kind but inquisitive spinster.
“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! As a result, our whole life, both individual and social, shows itself to be a struggle, and a dramatic one, between good and evil, between light and darkness.
She was dressed like women of the region with a long dress, an apron nearly as long as the dress, a shawl that crossed over her breast and was knotted in the back, and a cap or bonnet similar to the ones worn by peasant women. As she did not hurry, her mistress, old Mother Pra, ran to the cowbarn to fetch her. “Return to God with all your heart”, he alone is the source of life. We find that we are unable of ourselves to overcome the assaults of evil successfully, so that everyone feels as though bound by chains” (Vatican II, Gaudium et Spes, 13).
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. The biblical and evangelical consonances of this discourse are many. Hence she instinctively turned towards Maximin to ask for an explanation, but the Beautiful Lady forestalled her.“Ah, my children, you do not understand? Marcel Schlewer, MS and Maurice Sublet, MS. Posted in Even small donations help us to continue to Make Mary's message known.
Pilgrims, unbelievers, skeptics, took turn in questioning the two young witnesses, trying in every way to cause them to contradict each other. Is it really for us a Christ inaugurated, by his resurrection, the first day of the new creation: we are called to live as children of God. 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.
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