This Issue -
July 14,
2016
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Hello, Co-Missionaries of La Salette,
For our July website
... the articles in our online newsletter reflect on:
La Salette:
- Mary reminds us that faith in her Son in our lasting hope (La Salette -Hope for All)
- The growth of the La Salette Sisters into one vibrant community (La Salette Sisters Renewed)
- The life and death struggle of our La Salettes in Argentina (Argentina's Dirty War)
- A virtual tour of the place where Mary appeared some 170 years ago (The Holy Mountain)
- What is Mary's Mission for us today? (Mary's Mission to Us)
- The Virgin Reconciler strives to rekindle love's embers in the heart of humanity (Mary, Mediator and Reconciler)
Our Faith and Life:
- The Los Angeles Diocese is beginning a new media platform based on St. Junipero Serra (New Angelus News)
- "There is an appointed time for everything under the heavens" (A God of All Seasons)
- Learning about prayer of the eye and of sound and other kinds of prayer (Many Ways of Praying)
Social Justice:
- The struggle for freedom and rights by Myanmar's Religious Minorities (Protecting Myanmar's Minorities)
Please invite others
to sign up for our free newsletter. May God help you to continue to make Mary's message known whenever the opportunity arises!
Fr. Ron Gagne, M.S.
P.S. We welcome your comments and suggestions. Please contact me at: rongagne@aol.com
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Mary, Mediator and Reconciler
Editor:
Fr. Ferec's article, Reflections on our Spirituality (Dec., 1966), was originally published in the La Salette publication, Reconciliare
, just after the conclusion of Vatican II. We have divided his lengthy presentation into five articles: 1) Our La Salette Spirituality, 2) Mary, Mediator and Reconciler, 3) La Salettes - Reconcilers Par Excellence, 4) Our La Salette Charism, and 5) A Pep-Talk for La Salettes.
La Salette is essentially the live performance of a heart-broken Mother who tries, by her suffering and prayers, to shield her earthly children against the wrath of her heavenly Son. With that purpose in mind, she comes to plead with them to change their ways. In this context the most fitting title is precisely the one which Church authorities conferred upon her, once the anonymous people had mysteriously coined it: that of Our Lady, Reconciler.
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Many Ways of Praying
by Fr. Ron Gagne, M.S.
Hebrew tradition calls its people to pray at least three times a day. Christians are reminded by St. Paul to "Pray always..." (1 Thes 5:17).
However for many of us, prayer may be a fearsome prospect. Our honest response to frequent prayer may well be, "I'm no monk! After all, I have things to do, projects to accomplish. I just don't have the time."
What a surprise if we actually realize that we can pray by our just being present, responding to events or people around us and consequently experiencing being touched where God resides, in our "heart of hearts".
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