This Issue  -    October 12, 
2016
Hello, Co-Missionaries of La Salette,
 
For this year's Fall edition of our online newsletter, we reflect on:
 
La Salette:
  • Fr. Silvano Marisa, M.S., Our La Salette Superior General, speaks with great hope about the 170th anniversary of the Apparition of La Salette as well as our new mission in Tanzania (A Time to Celebrate - 1846- 2016)
  • One of our La Salette Missionaries has, over many years, been a faithful minister to U.S. migrants (Fr. Normand Farland, M.S. - a Friend to Migrants)
  • It is significant that we La Salette Missionaries have recently volunteered to serve in Tanzania on the African Continent
    (Our First Month in Tanzania)  
Our Faith and Life:
  • Fr. Jean Stern, M.S. speaks about the important place of Mary in Ecumenical Dialogue and what we as La Salettes can bring to the discussion (Ecumenism and La Salette)  
  • Our beloved Pope Francis recently met with Journalists, telling them that truth, professionalism and respect for human dignity were essential elements in their work (Pope Francis to Journalists)
  • The incomparable St. Ignatius is the subject of the new movie about his life and ministry (Movie on St. Ignatius)
  • It may be hard to belief that some in our society at times seem to have a great amount of patience (Patience is a Virtue)
Social Justice:
  • It is marvelous that one of our La Salette parishes in the Atlanta has been recognized for its fine work helping those who suffer from various disasters (St. Ann's Disaster Relief Ministry)
  • Recently a consensus statement was released at the end of the Nonviolence and Just Peace conference in Rome which more than
    1,100 individuals and organizations signed (Catholics and Non-Violence)
  • Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas from India pointed out that the Church in in his country has consistently protected the "dalits" or outcasts of Indian society (Protecting Indian Outcasts)
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.
 
P.S. We welcome your comments and suggestions. Please contact me at: rongagne@aol.com











Our First Days in Tanzania
by Fr. Aldrin H. Cenizal, M.S.

Habari! Greetings from Tanzania!
 
We would like to give you some news from here in Tanzania since you left on July 24, 2016. In our first month here, some of the diocesan clergy who were not able to attend the inauguration on the July 17th were coming to visit us and to personally welcome us into the Bukoba Diocese. We experienced the warm welcome from every priest that we met here as well as from the religious (women) in the diocese.
 
Our parish is composed of 43 Small Christian Communities from the 15 villages entrusted to our care. For now, we already visited some of the villages and celebrated Mass there but we are not yet visited half of them. We have 3 sub-stations, including the Parish Center.

Fr. Normand Farland, M.S. - A Friend to Migrants
by Kevin Bouffard 

Lakeland, FL - Members of Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission in Wahneta, Florida, will remember their late pastor, the Rev. Norman A. Farland, M.S., as someone who met both their spiritual and physical needs.
 
"As a Catholic my whole life, that's what it means to help the poor. He's a clear example of that," said Brenda Ramirez, 35, a Winter Haven lawyer and member of the Hispanic faith community since it was founded in the early 1980s. "He was extremely simple and so full of faith. He was comfortable with anybody and everybody. He was a member of our family."

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