With Our Lady of La Salette's Feast Day coming up on September 19th, I decided to reprint a blog post from two years ago which features the introduction to my book, Our Lady of La Salette: A Mother Weeps for her Children.
Introduction
Our Lady of La Salette was trying to get my
attention. It started in the days
following the tragic fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in France. Someone posted on
Facebook that there was a Marian apparition that had predicted this. Another
person responded that it was Our Lady of La Salette. While I had heard of this
title for the Blessed Mother, I knew nothing about it. Intrigued, I searched
for her message and quickly found a terrifying apocalyptic prediction. I
wondered why more wasn’t known about this approved apparition. Why wasn’t this
common knowledge in Catholic circles the way Our Lady of Lourdes or Our Lady of
Fatima are?
My parish library had three books on Our Lady of La
Salette. I took out one that looked interesting and quickly read it. It offered
information about the apparition that took place on September 19, 1846 but said
nothing about the frightening secret I had read online. I was confused.
A few days letter, an article appeared in the National
Catholic Register on Our Lady of La Salette and the site of the apparition in
Corps, France.[i] I went back to my parish library and took out
the other two books as well as undertook a considerable amount of online
research. While I had no hope of making a pilgrimage to France, I made plans to
visit the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
The more I learned, the more I realized that there was
a story here – a message that our Blessed Mother wanted people to hear – a
message that is just as relevant in our own day as it was in 1846. In this
short book, I endeavor to weed out fact from fiction regarding this apparition
and to share this important message from heaven. I trust that the Blessed
Mother will help it get into the hands of those who need to hear it.
Our Lady of La Salette, Pray for Us.
[i]
Mary Hansen, “Weeping Mother: Our Lady of La Salette Calls for Prayer and
Repentance in the Alps”, National
Catholic Register, May 12, 2019.
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