[MaryVitamin] Friday - Our Lady of La Salette

Mary Vitamin for September 19^th

 

Topic: Friday Sacrifice with Our Lady of La Salette (September 19)

 

Quote:

Our Lady at La Salette

"If my people do not wish to submit themselves, I am forced to let go of the hand of my Son. It is so heavy and weighs me down so much that I can no longer keep hold of it." (Our Lady was crying.)

September 19, 1846

 

Meditation:

From The Glories of Mary we learn that St. Bonaventure (d. 1274) comments upon these words of the prophet Isaiah:

 

Behold thou art angry, and we have sinned…there is none…that riseth up and taketh hold of thee. Isaiah 64:5 & 7

 

"'It is true, O Lord, that at the time there was none to raise up sinners and withhold thy wrath, for Mary was not yet born;' before Mary, to quote [St. Bonaventure's] own words, 'there was no one who could thus dare to restrain the arm of God.' But, now, if God is angry with a sinner, and Mary takes him under her protection, she withholds the avenging arm of her Son, and saves him.'"

 

"Basil of Seleucia encourages sinners, saying, 'O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all thy necessities; call her to thine assistance, for thou wilt always find her ready to help thee; for such is the divine will that she should help all in every kind of necessity.'"

St. Alphonsus di Liguori, The Glories of Mary, (Tan Books: 1978), 123-4.

 

Resolution:

Today, I will Marianize the traditional Friday act of sacrifice of no meat on Fridays. I will remember Our Lady of La Salette and offer my meatless meals on Friday to her. I will remember Our Lady's tears.

(Father John Hardon explains making a sacrifice on Friday at this link.)

 

Marian Vow:

Father Stefano Manelli, FI

"But no less heroic than these extraordinary acts [of the saints] is a steadfast love nourished by little, unnoticed sacrifices. Every day St. Dominic Savio (as St. John Bosco reports) offered some mortification to the Blessed Virgin."

Devotion to Our Lady, (Academy of the Immaculate: 2001), 107.

 

I give this resolution to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

 

Thanks be to God for graces received.

 

Related site: Castle of the Immaculate & AirMaria

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The Apparitions at
La Salette

La Salette Apparition - September 1846 Mélanie and Maximin, the two children privileged to see Mary in 1846, came from the town of Corps near Grenoble, in a poor part of south-eastern France. Maximin Giraud was eleven years old at the time and Mélanie Calvat fourteen. On Saturday 19 September, they were looking after their employer's cattle, high up on the pasture above La Salette, a village near Corps, when they saw a wonderful apparition of Mary. A globe of light opened to reveal a resplendent woman seated on a stone with her head in her hands. The children later described her as very tall and beautiful, wearing a long, white, pearl studded, sleeved dress, and a white shawl, with some sort of tiara or crown on her head. Hanging from her neck was a large crucifix adorned with a small hammer and pincers, with a brilliantly shining figure of Christ on it. The whole effect was as if she was made of light. Speaking tearfully she told them that unless people repented she would be forced to let go the arm of her son because it had become so heavy. Mary went on to complain that she had to pray ceaselessly to her son for them, but the people still worked on Sundays and blasphemed. She also spoke of coming punishments for these sins, including crop blights and famine. She confided a secret to each of the children, which they were not to divulge, although eventually these secrets were made known to Pope Pius IX Finally she asked the children to spread her message before disappearing. When the children returned home they told their story, an account of which was taken down in writing the next day. They faced much opposition in making known Mary's message, but they maintained their story with resolution. The local Bishop too faced quite a degree of opposition in investigating the apparition, and it was only after four years, and having set up two commissions of enquiry, that Mgr de Bruillard, as bishop of Grenoble, approved of devotion to Our Lady of Salette, in the following terms. "We declare that the apparition of the Blessed Virgin to two shepherds, on September 19, 1846, on a mountain in the Alps in the parish of La Salette, bears in itself all the marks of truth and that the faithful are justified in believing without question in its truth. And so, to mark our lively gratitude to God and the glorious Virgin Mary, we authorise the cult of Our Lady of La Salette." Mary's words at La Salette Sources: Beevers, The Sun Her Mantle; Kennedy, in A Woman clothed with the Sun, New York, 1961).

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