This Issue  -   March 27, 
2017
Hello, our Co-Missionaries of La Salette,
 
For this second Lenten edition of our online newsletter, we invite you to reflect on: a La Salette Priest's  lifetime  of healing; our La Salette Lay Brothers as true gifts; mercy and immigrants; a Café ministry in a Los Angeles Parish; the human's right to water; and how our pets teach us. Enjoy!
 
Please invite others to sign up for our free newsletter. May God help you to continue to make Mary's message known whenever the opportunity arises!
 
Fr. Ron Gagne, M.S.

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Human's Right to Water
by Pope Francis 

I greet all of you and I thank you for taking part in this meeting concerned with the human right to water and the need for suitable public policies in this regard. It is significant that you have gathered to pool your knowledge and resources in order to respond to this urgent need of today's men and women.

The Book of Genesis tells us that water was there in the beginning (cf. Gen 1:2); in the words of Saint Francis of Assisi, it is "useful, chaste and humble" (cf. Canticle of the Creatures). The questions that you are discussing are not marginal, but basic and pressing.

Patron Saint of Mercy
by Kathryn Jean Lopez 

For many New Yorkers, a beloved neighbor and true hero of mercy died this month. "New York's Finest" took on new meaning when the world came to know Police Officer Steven McDonald, who was shot by a teenager in Central Park in the summer of 1986, paralyzing him from the neck down.

"He became a living, breathing prophet of reconciliation and charity," is how Cardinal Timothy Dolan described McDonald's witness of forgiveness on his radio show. He would later even float the "s"-word about him - saint. I thought immediately of a line Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez has used to refer to Dorothy Day: "I don't know if she is a saint but she makes me want to be one." That captures the Steven McDonald effect.

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