Charity will flourish everywhere. Consequently, and not My Master told me to come and watch over my cows together with yours. The sight of the Holy Virgin was itself a perfect paradise. I followed Her with no other motive and fully disposed to serve Her for the rest of my life. Just this sight focuses the soul on God, and makes it like a living-death, looking upon all the things of this earth, even the things which seem the most serious, as nothing but children's playthings. There, I used to talk with the little flowers of the Good Lord.
These are the two things that make my Son's arm so heavy.”“Do you say your prayers well, my children?” The children answered with one voice: “Not too well, Madame, hardly at all!”The Lady said: “Ah, my children, it is very important to do so, at night and in the morning. of Paris. How do we honor “the day which God has reserved for himself”, the day when one stands face to face with God? And yet, O love that men cannot understand, He made Himself man, and wanted to die, yes, die, so as to better inscribe in our souls and in our memory, the passionate love He has for us! On Her shoes there was a buckle of gold, not the gold of this earth, but rather the gold of paradise. The text is followed exactly here. I said to her (in French, and I, who had never spoken French), The Catholic Church, taught by the Holy Spirit, honors her with filial affection and devotion as a most beloved Mother” (Ibidem, 53).“The entire body of the faithful pours forth urgent supplications to the Mother of God and our Mother that she, who aided the beginnings of the Church by her prayers, may now, exalted as she is above all the angels and saints, intercede before her Son in the fellowship of all the saints...” (Ibidem, 69).Our Lady specifies two refusals of her people: “the two things which make the arm of my Son so heavy”.The Seventh Day. These roses were dazzlingly beautiful, and from the heart of each rose there shone forth a flame of very beautiful and pleasing light. Yet because of this death and rupture Christ Jesus came to open the road to salvation. Chacun des deux enfants à reçu un secret personnel. I gestured to Maximin to lift his soul up to God. Her garments, like those of Christ on the mount of the Transfiguration, are likewise resplendent with light: her headdress, robe, long apron and peasant woman's shawl.All the light comes from the large crucifix she bears on her breast. They approached so near her that, as they later expressed it, another person could not have passed between them and her. At the age of twelve, they will draw attention upon themselves by the gallant victories they will have won; soon they will each lead armies, aided by the legions of hell. The original text of the Message and Secret of La Salette, approved by the Catholic Church, are published here in their entirety for the first time in the English Language. For a time, God will cease to remember France and Italy because the Gospel of Jesus Christ has been forgotten. “The priests, ministers of my Son, the priests, by their wicked lives, by their irreverence and their impiety in the celebration of the holy mysteries, by their love of money, their love of honors and pleasures, and the priests have become cesspools of impurity. The whole thing formed a most beautiful diadem, which alone shone brighter than our earth's sun. This apparition and message gave rise to the Catholic Religious Community—the Missionaries of La Salette—and their ministry of reconciliation.The beautiful Lady stood up and said: “If my people do not obey, I shall be compelled to loose my Son’s arm. Melanie preceded her by a few steps, and Maximin was at her right.On reaching the summit the Lady paused for a few seconds, then slowly rose up to a height of a meter and a half. In a letter to Father Combe, dated October 7th, 1899, Melanie corrects these words in parenthesis which are her own, she says, and which she judges to be unclear and inaccurate. And all that grows will fall to dust when you thresh it. Maximin replied: “It's quite true, Madame, I didn't remember.”
revolution of 1789, which brought with it persecution of the clergy and Oh! De Bruite, the shepherd (that was the nick name of Pierre Selme, Maximin's master), has told me everything.” I started again, and when I had finished, my master said: 19 septembre 1846, sud-est de la France. Are we conscious of the presence of Him who follows us wherever we go? But before that happens, children under seven years of age will be seized with trembling and die in the arms of those holding them.
“Well, my children, you will pass it on to all of my people.” How long their slumber lasted is not certain – half an hour perhaps, or three quarters of an hour or possibly more.