1/03/2015

Sunday, January 4, 2015 ... Our Last Day of Christmas Festival of Lights... Please drive carefully...




Dear Friends of Our Lady of La Salette:

We wish to extend our love and gratitude for your visiting us!

Please remember to come and pray with us during this 

New Year and let us together keep focusing on

  'JESUS' "LIGHT OF LIFE"








Happy New Year! 

We begin the New Year always with the solemnity of Mary Mother of God. The readings 

that have been provided to us for the feast give us two models for emulation. The shepherds received the good 

news from the angels that a savior is born among them. They immediately left their sheep and went in search 

of the newborn baby. Looking up, searching eagerly and finding God in the manger in the midst of their own 

business was important to the shepherds. They never lost the sense of wonder.



 Another year is ending and a new year begins. The attitude of the shepherds is crucial for a successful year 

for all of us that we never stop seeking out this God of surprises who wish to bring light and life into our lives. 

May this New Year be one in which we will actively search for that God in the midst of our busy lives and 

having found God we may adore and worship with our minds and hearts. Mary “pondered all these things in her

heart” says the evangelist. The divine son Jesus, the Word made flesh, was constantly becoming ‘food for 

thought’ for Mary. Amazing things were happening in her life through the intervention of God from the 

annunciation to visit of her cousin Elizabeth, to journey to Bethlehem, to birth in the manger, and now to the visit

of the shepherds.

Let the Word become ‘food for our life’ during this New Year. Let us never stop ‘pondering’ about all that 

God is doing in our lives now and in the New Year.

Pope Francis calls us to be new evangelizers and Mary is the star of evangelization. How did she do it? It is by 

constantly opening her mind and heart to God and God’s activity in her life and surrendering to the will of God 

that she remained a faithful disciple of Christ. Let us turn to the examples of the shepherds and to Mary for a 

holy year 2015.

At the conclusion of the apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel) of Pope Francis, we  read this beautiful prayer:

Mary, Virgin and Mother, you who, moved by the Holy Spirit, welcomed the Word of Life in the depths of 

your humble faith:

As you gave yourself completely to the Eternal One, help us to say our own "Yes" to the urgent call, as 

pressing as ever, to proclaim the good news of Jesus.

Filled with Christ’s presence, you brought joy to John the Baptist, making him exult in the womb of his mother.

Brimming over with joy, you sang of the great things done by God. Standing at the foot of the cross with 

unyielding faith, you received the joyful comfort of the Resurrection and joined the disciples in awaiting the 

Spirit, so that the evangelizing Church might be born.

Obtain for us now a new ardor born of the Resurrection that we may bring to all the “Gospel of Life”, which 

triumphs over death.


Give us a holy courage to seek new paths, that the gift of unfading beauty may reach every man and woman.

Virgin of listening and contemplation, Mother of love, Bride of the eternal wedding feast, pray for the Church, 

whose pure icon you are, that she may never be closed in on herself or lose her passion for establishing God’s 

Kingdom.

Star of the New Evangelization, help us to bear radiant witness to communion, service, ardent and generous 

faith, justice and love of the poor, which the joy of the Gospel may reach to the ends of the earth, illuminating 

even the fringes of our world.

Mother of the living Gospel, wellspring of happiness for God’s little ones, pray for us. Amen. Alleluia!”


A WORD OF THANKS...


On behalf of the La Salette Missionaries, the priests, brothers, sisters and lay associates, I wish to express 

my heartfelt appreciation and thanks to all the employees, volunteers and friends who gave their time and 

talent for a successful and joyful season of the Festival of lights. We have been immensely blessed with great 

weather and large crowds throughout the season. We thank Mary our Mother for her powerful intercession 

in watching over us during this special season. We thank you for your prayers and support for all our 

ministries here at the Shrine. For everyone who worked hard to make this mission possible we say

 THANK YOU.
May God bless you in the New Year 2015!
         Fr. Cyriac, M.S. Fr. Flavio, M.S. and Fr. Pat, M.S.






We, the La Salette Family, await your presence here at 
the Altar of Our Lord Jesus 
where together we will share 
His Most Precious Body and His Precious Blood
 in the 
Most Holy Eucharist! 

We return to our regular Services Schedule:


MASSES:

Monday - Friday:12:10 pm & 6:30 pm
Saturday Vigil Mass - 4:30 pm
Sunday Mass - 12:10 pm


Sacrament of Reconciliation/Confessions:

Monday - Friday  - 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Wednesday evening 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm 
Saturday and Sunday - 1:00 - 4:00 pm
(Reconciliation Chapel)
Located inside the Shrine Church



COME PRAY THE ROSARY WITH US 
FOR WORLD PEACE 

Half Hour before each Mass

Our Lady calls us to prayer.
at La Salette in France on September 19, 1846 She appeared to two shepherd children
weeping she asked the children:
"Do you pray well, my children?
Our Lady today asks us 
the same question in our hearts:
Do you pray well my children?

Let us begin this New Year
bringing Joy to Our Lady

May each rosary
wipe away 
Our Lady's tears.

Fr.Joseph Whalen,M.S. video

 Our Lady of La Salette Story and Memorare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZjzNTRV6fQ

Fr.Joseph Whalen,M.S. video on Healing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zel81pJnmhM

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