Tuesday, February 10, 2015 The Shrine will be closed All Day Today due to Snow Storm...

Dear Friends of Our Lady of La Salette Shrine:

The Shrine will be

Closed All Day

on 

Tuesday, February 10, 2015 

due to Snow Storm! 

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/

ALL SERVICES AND EVENTS ARE CANCELLED!

We hope everyone stays warm and safe!

 Pray for those who do not have food nor shelter 

in these freezing conditions. 

God bless you all!

Let us use this time for personal

prayer time with Our Lord Jesus 

and 

family quality time!

St. Scholastica

Feast day: February 10

Death: 543

St. Scholastica, sister of St. Benedict, consecrated her life to God from her earliest youth. After her brother went to Monte Cassino, where he established his famous monastery, she took up her abode in the neighborhood at Plombariola, where she founded and governed a monastery of nuns, about five miles from that of St. Benedict, who, it appears, also directed his sister and her nuns. She visited her brother once a year, and as she was not allowed to enter his monastery, he went in company with some of his brethren to meet her at a house some distance away. These visits were spent in conferring together on spiritual matters. On one occasion they had passed the time as usual in prayer and pious conversation and in the evening they sat down to take their reflection. St. Scholastica begged her brother to remain until the next day. St. Benedict refused to spend the night outside his monastery. She had recourse to prayer and a furious thunderstorm burst so that neither St. Benedict nor any of his companions could return home. They spent the night in spiritual conferences. The next morning they parted to meet no more on earth. Three days later St. Scholastica died, and her holy brother beheld her soul in a vision as it ascended into heaven. He sent his brethren to bring her body to his monastery and laid it in the tomb he had prepared for himself. She died about the year 543, and St. Benedict followed her soon after. Her feast day is February 10th.

Here's another patroness eyes we all look to 

St. Lucy now we can also ask 

Blessed Miriam Teresa 

for help!

http://7online.com/religion/nun-credited-with-curing-boy-beatified-in-newark/335444/

https://www.facebook.com/SisterMiriamTeresaLeagueofPrayer

http://www.catholictv.com/shows/americas-catholic-television-network/beatification-sr-miriam-teresa-demjanovich

NEWARK (AP) — An American nun credited with curing a boy's eye disease moved a step closer to sainthood Saturday in what church officials said was the first beatification Mass held in the United States.

A beatification Mass for Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, who died in 1927, was led by Cardinal Angelo Amato at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark. Beatification is the third in a four-step process toward sainthood.

Demjanovich is credited with curing a boy's macular degeneration in the 1960s, the Archdiocese of Newark says. The boy, Michael Mencer, was given a lock of the nun's hair and prayed to her. The effects of the eye disease soon began to fade, Roman Catholic Church officials say.

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"Within a period of six weeks, it was totally reversed," said Sister Mary Canavan of the Sisters of Charity, the order to which Demjanovich belonged.

Mencer, who is now 58 and lives in Nebraska, and members of the Demjanovich family were among the hundreds of clergy members, nuns and worshippers who attended the beatification Mass. Mencer said he was happy that the New Jersey nun was getting the recognition she deserves.

"I was dug in thinking, this was going to take 100 years," he said.

Mencer also reflected on the moment when he first realized his eyesight was improving.

"I was walking and I looked up, and I thought I was looking at the sun because at first it was just the light," he said. "Then I was able to focus on the sphere and I thought 'oh, that's the sun' but it didn't hurt, I didn't tear up or anything and then I looked back down and there it was, the hair."

Mencer said he returned home and handed the hair to his mother.

"And then I just went out to play," he said. "I actually ran, it didn't dawn on me then. I just ran to my friend's house."

Mencer's younger brother, Mark, said he was thrilled to attend the Mass.

Michael Mencer displays relics of Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, including the one at right which he carried as a young boy when the Roman Catholic church says his eye disease was cured prior to a beatification ceremony at Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014, in Newark. Demjanovich, who died in 1927 at age 26, is credited with curing Mencer's eye disease when he was given a lock of the nun's hair and prayed to her. The ceremony moves Demjanovich a step closer to sainthood with her beatification as it is the third in a four-step process. (Photo: Julio Cortez, AP)

"This is something that's been in the making for decades," Mark Mencer said. "My mother has been in contact with Rome for a long time. I'm glad to see such great success come from this."

Mark Mencer, who now lives in Las Vegas, said he was about 4 years old when his brother's vision began to improve.

"I heard the stories including the one of him walking into a tree because he couldn't see so well," he said. "It's amazing because he had no medical intervention. It's a true miracle of God."

The beatification comes less than a year after Pope Francis certified Mencer's improved eyesight as a miracle, though church officials started the process in 1945 when the bishop of Paterson, N.J., began studying Demjanovich's life and virtues, according to the Sisters of Charity.

Demjanovich was born in Bayonne, N.J., southeast of Newark, and was a Sister of Charity for only two years before succumbing to complications of appendicitis at age 26. During her short time in the order, she was best known for her virtue and her mature writings. At the time, students also noted that whatever was said in confidence to her was not spoken to anyone else, Sister Diane Collesano said.

"The sisters saw in her that a person who had insights far beyond the average 20-some-year-old person," Collesano said.

Beatification requires evidence of one miracle that happened after the candidate has died and as a result of a specific plea to the candidate. Sainthood requires a second miracle, though candidates deemed martyrs need only one for canonization.

Traditionally, beatifications have taken place in Rome. But several years ago, Pope Benedict XVI said beatifications could take place in the country and diocese from which the blessed person came.


http://www.religionnews.com/2014/09/15/new-jersey-nun-beatification-set-next-month-newark/