Our Lady of La Salette - September 19 BobLord. On September 19, 1846, the Mother of God appeared to two young shepherds, Melanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, on the heights of the mountain of La Salette …More
Our Lady of La Salette - September 19
BobLord. On September 19, 1846, the Mother of God appeared to two young shepherds, Melanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, on the heights of the mountain of La Salette in France. There She dictated to them a public message which She asked to make known to all Her people. And to each little shepherd privately She confided a secret, concerning which She gave special directives. Our text for the feast of Blessed Maximin Giraud, September 20th, gives in his own words a brief description of the apparition. And we summarize [tomorrow] the public message, with its warnings and predictions, all of which have already been fulfilled. Blessed Melanie Calvat was invested with the mission of founding a new religious Order, the Order of the Mother of God, which would associate under one single common rule more than one community, and would include the Apostles of the Latter Times announced by Saint Louis Mary de Montfort in his Prophetic Prayer.
Blessed Melanie was told by the Mother of God to make known her secret after the year 1858, and she published it herself in the face of great difficulties. It was important, and remains important, for the Church to be aware of its contents. We therefore will summarize today, briefly, the secret of La Salette for those who may not yet know it, or even of it.
The Blessed Virgin announced that it was primarily the defections of the Church which will bring down on the world the exemplary chastisement:
God is going to strike in an unprecedented manner. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth! God is going to exhaust His wrath, and no one will be able to resist so many concerted woes... Many will abandon the faith, and the number of priests and religious who will dissociate themselves from the true religion will be great... Many religious institutes will lose the faith entirely and will cause the loss of many souls. The Church will pass through a frightful crisis... The Holy Father will suffer greatly. I will be with him to the end to receive his sacrifice... For a time God will not remember France or Italy because the Gospel of Jesus Christ is no longer known... [But the] prayers, penance and tears of the just will ascend to heaven, and the entire people of God will beg for pardon and mercy and will ask My assistance and My intercession. Then Jesus Christ, by an act of His justice and His great mercy toward the just [will intervene and] then there will be peace, the reconciliation of God with men... Charity will flourish everywhere.. The Gospel will be preached everywhere, and men will make great progress in the faith, because there will be unity among the workers of Jesus Christ and men will live in the fear of God.
She foretells: Rome will lose the faith and will become the seat of Antichrist. To call Her children to combat for God in the days of darkness and sin, the Mother of God concludes:
I address an urgent appeal to the earth: I summon the true disciples of God who lives and reigns in heaven; I summon the true imitators of Christ made man, the one true Saviour of men; I summon My children, My true devotees, those who have given themselves to Me so that I might lead them to My divine Son, those whom I carry, so to speak, in My arms, those who have lived according to My spirit; finally, I summon the Apostles of the Latter Times, the faithful disciples of Jesus Christ who have lived in scorn of the world and of themselves, in poverty and in humility, in contempt and in silence, in prayer and in mortification, in chastity and in union with God, in suffering and unknown to the world. It is time for them to arise and come forth to enlighten the earth.
Go, and show yourselves as My cherished children; I am with you and in you, provided that your faith be the light that enlightens you in these days of woe. May your zeal cause you to be as famished for the glory and honor of Jesus Christ. Fight, children of light, you little number who see; for behold the time of times, the end of ends.
The Apparition of the Blessed Virgin on the Mountain of La Salette (Editions Magnificat: Mont-Tremblant (St. Jovite), Québec, Canada, 1973).
BobLord. On September 19, 1846, the Mother of God appeared to two young shepherds, Melanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, on the heights of the mountain of La Salette in France. There She dictated to them a public message which She asked to make known to all Her people. And to each little shepherd privately She confided a secret, concerning which She gave special directives. Our text for the feast of Blessed Maximin Giraud, September 20th, gives in his own words a brief description of the apparition. And we summarize [tomorrow] the public message, with its warnings and predictions, all of which have already been fulfilled. Blessed Melanie Calvat was invested with the mission of founding a new religious Order, the Order of the Mother of God, which would associate under one single common rule more than one community, and would include the Apostles of the Latter Times announced by Saint Louis Mary de Montfort in his Prophetic Prayer.
Blessed Melanie was told by the Mother of God to make known her secret after the year 1858, and she published it herself in the face of great difficulties. It was important, and remains important, for the Church to be aware of its contents. We therefore will summarize today, briefly, the secret of La Salette for those who may not yet know it, or even of it.
The Blessed Virgin announced that it was primarily the defections of the Church which will bring down on the world the exemplary chastisement:
God is going to strike in an unprecedented manner. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth! God is going to exhaust His wrath, and no one will be able to resist so many concerted woes... Many will abandon the faith, and the number of priests and religious who will dissociate themselves from the true religion will be great... Many religious institutes will lose the faith entirely and will cause the loss of many souls. The Church will pass through a frightful crisis... The Holy Father will suffer greatly. I will be with him to the end to receive his sacrifice... For a time God will not remember France or Italy because the Gospel of Jesus Christ is no longer known... [But the] prayers, penance and tears of the just will ascend to heaven, and the entire people of God will beg for pardon and mercy and will ask My assistance and My intercession. Then Jesus Christ, by an act of His justice and His great mercy toward the just [will intervene and] then there will be peace, the reconciliation of God with men... Charity will flourish everywhere.. The Gospel will be preached everywhere, and men will make great progress in the faith, because there will be unity among the workers of Jesus Christ and men will live in the fear of God.
She foretells: Rome will lose the faith and will become the seat of Antichrist. To call Her children to combat for God in the days of darkness and sin, the Mother of God concludes:
I address an urgent appeal to the earth: I summon the true disciples of God who lives and reigns in heaven; I summon the true imitators of Christ made man, the one true Saviour of men; I summon My children, My true devotees, those who have given themselves to Me so that I might lead them to My divine Son, those whom I carry, so to speak, in My arms, those who have lived according to My spirit; finally, I summon the Apostles of the Latter Times, the faithful disciples of Jesus Christ who have lived in scorn of the world and of themselves, in poverty and in humility, in contempt and in silence, in prayer and in mortification, in chastity and in union with God, in suffering and unknown to the world. It is time for them to arise and come forth to enlighten the earth.
Go, and show yourselves as My cherished children; I am with you and in you, provided that your faith be the light that enlightens you in these days of woe. May your zeal cause you to be as famished for the glory and honor of Jesus Christ. Fight, children of light, you little number who see; for behold the time of times, the end of ends.
The Apparition of the Blessed Virgin on the Mountain of La Salette (Editions Magnificat: Mont-Tremblant (St. Jovite), Québec, Canada, 1973).
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THE MESSAGES OF LA SALETTE
www.catholictradition.org/Mary/salette1.htm
Of all the Marian apparitions of the last two centuries, La Salette is not the best known although it must certainly be the most unique, not only for the "secrets" Our Lady told the two shepherd children, but because of the complexity involved in the series of Vatican interventions. The entire extract of the message to the …More
www.catholictradition.org/Mary/salette1.htm
Of all the Marian apparitions of the last two centuries, La Salette is not the best known although it must certainly be the most unique, not only for the "secrets" Our Lady told the two shepherd children, but because of the complexity involved in the series of Vatican interventions. The entire extract of the message to the children was not published until 1879, although Our Lady told Melanie that it could be publicized in 1858. Melanie published her part of the "secret" in Lecce Italy with the approval of the diocesan Bishop. The date of the original publication was Nov. 15 of that year. The apparition had occurred on September 19, 1846, the eve of the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, which was at that time being celebrated on the 20th of September, not the 15th the permanent day of the Feast.
Here are excerpts from Melanie Calvat's part:
Here is the text of the Message of La Salette:
"Come, my children, do not be afraid, I am here to tell you great news.
If my people will not submit, I'm forced to let go the arm of my Son.He is so strong and so heavy that I can no longer maintain. From the time that I suffer for you guys! If I want my Son not to abandon you, I am charged to pray unceasingly. To others, you do not so! However …More
"Come, my children, do not be afraid, I am here to tell you great news.
If my people will not submit, I'm forced to let go the arm of my Son.He is so strong and so heavy that I can no longer maintain. From the time that I suffer for you guys! If I want my Son not to abandon you, I am charged to pray unceasingly. To others, you do not so! However much you pray, do good, you will never be able to recompense the pains I have taken for you others.
I gave you six days to work, I booked myself on the seventh and does not give it to me. That's what dwells as the arm of my Son.
Also, those who lead the carts can not swear without putting the name of my Son in the middle. These are the two things so heavy arm of my Son.
If the harvest is spoiled, it is nothing other than because of you. I see you had done last year by the potatoes, you do not case. On the contrary: when you find potatoes spoiled, you swore, you put the name of my Son in the middle. They will continue and this year, for Christmas, there will be more.
(So far the Beautiful Lady spoke in French. It prevents a matter of Melanie and ends his speech in dialect.)
You do not understand, my children! I will tell you otherwise. If Recolta gasta is ...
If you have wheat, you must not sow. All you sow, the animals eat it and what will fall while dust when the fight. There will come a great famine.
Before the famine comes, small children under 7 years old will die and a tremor in the hands of those who hold them.
The others will do penance by the famine. The nuts will become empty, the grapes will rot.
(At this moment Mélanie see that the Beautiful Lady said something to Maximin, but she does not hear. Then it was the turn of Maximin understand she said something to Melanie that he does not hear . Then she continues.)
If they convert, the stones and rocks will become heaps of wheat and potatoes will be planted by land.
Do you say your prayers, my children? Not much, ma'am. Ah! My children, we must do it, night and morning, would not you say only one "Our Father" and "Hail". And when you can do better, tell you more. In the summer he will some women a little older at Mass. The others work the entire summer Sunday and winter, when they do not know what to do, they go to Mass only to mock religion. Lent, they go to slaughter, like dogs. N 'have you not seen spoiled wheat, children?No ma'am! But you, Maximin, my child, you need to have seen once at Coin, with your father. The master of the field told your father to come and see his spoiled wheat. You went there. Your father took two or three ears in his hand, crumpled them and they all fell into dust. In returning you, when you were no longer than half an hour Corps, your father gave you a piece of bread by saying: "Well, my boy, still eats bread this year because I do not know will not eat in the coming year if the wheat continues like this. " Ah! Yes Madam. I remember now. I do not remember just now.
Well, my children, you will do to all my people!
Come, my children, do good to all my people! "
lasalette.cef.fr/Le-Message-de-La-Salette