This Issue  -    November 10, 
2016
Hello,  our Co-Missionaries of La Salette,
 
For this year's Fall edition of our online newsletter, we reflect on:
 
La Salette:
  • Our La Salette charism is shared by many people across our world. Listen to the life and ministry of Sr. Anne-Marie who is a longtime devotee and La Salette Lay Associate in France (Meet Sr. Anne-Marie Etienne)
Our Faith and Life:
  • USB pen drives are formed into images of saints to remind us of the singular lives of these heroic Christians (Saintly USBs, Anyone?)
  • The important place of Marian prayer and devotion in our Catholic faith-life (Praying with Mary)
  • Fr. Ted Brown states how great things happened this year in the name of Christ and his Church of Mercy. (Celebrate God's Mercy)
  • The Church celebrates the life, example and martyrdom of a Mexican teenager. (St. José Sánchez del Río, age 15)
Social Justice:
  • This marvelous outreach by Pope Francis who, to close out the Year of Mercy, invited prisoners and their families from Italy and 12 other countries to join him at the Vatican; then he invited the socially excluded - either because of physical or psychological illnesses - to Rome for another celebration (Visiting Prisoners and Those Socially Excluded)
  • Conscious of our place in U.S. society we go out of our way to vote (Voting - A Privilege and Responsibility)
  • Bishop William Shomali shares his first-hand insights regarding the many injustices and violent environment in the land of the Prince of Peace.  (Peacemaking in the Holy Land)
  • Archbishop José H. Gomez states that it is time for us to end the death penalty - not only in California but throughout the U.S. and throughout the world. (Killing Isn't Justice)
  • The poorest of the poor, the Haitian people, are suffering from still another weather event. (Haiti and Hurricane Matthew)
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











Haiti and Hurricane Matthew
by Agenzia Fides

"We are still waiting for news of our confreres in Jérémie. Until today (October 7, 2016) we have no news. And there is no way to contact or visit them" writes to Fides Fr. Kenol Chery, C.Ss.R., missionary and regional superior of the Redemptorists in Haiti. 

"All religious congregations are in the same situation. We see the pictures taken by American soldiers that show the destruction, damage and desolation of the people. But the Haitian authorities cannot intervene. We can only pray and hope".

St. José Sánchez del Río, Age 15
by Tipografia Vaticana 

José Sánchez del Río  was born on March 28, 1913 in Sahuayo, in the State of Michoacan, Mexico. At the outbreak of the so-called "Cristero War" in 1926, his brothers joined the rebel forces fighting the violent anti-Christian regime which had been established in the country. Jose too was enlisted.

Catholicism flourished in Sahuayo and for this reason the "Cristeros" were deeply rooted in the area. Priests secretly remained in Sahuayo throughout the persecution and never abandoned the faithful, clandestinely celebrating the Eucharist and administrating the sacraments, at which young José assiduously participated. 

In those years, the first Christian martyrs were often spoken of and many young people wanted to follow in their footsteps. 

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