Recently we began a special Friday Evening Family Movie Program, Mercy in the Family, at the La Salette Shrine in Attleboro for families with children. It's a time to sit back with your younger kids and together enjoy a cheap movie in our Welcome Center with popcorn and antsy kids everywhere, watching movies with a meaning that our children can easily understand.
In describing this special movie experience, Fr. Ted said: "It's a real delight to help families recognize faith values in our culture today. At the end of one of these sessions, a dad came up and asked 'Why aren't there more educational programs like this with children in mind?' And, by the way, both children and their parents seem to get a lot out of these family gatherings!"
The Apparition of Our Lady of La Salette, on September 19, 1846, carries with it the signs of the Cross of Our Lord. In this particular event, Mary, the Mother of Jesus, appears as the Mother of Sorrows at the foot of the Cross of her Son, the Cross that she carries on her breast. She weeps because of her people who continue to crucify Jesus.
Challenging Times vs. Hardened Hearts
The people of La Salette lived in a human situation of misery because of the famine that brought death to many persons in the region. It was also a deplorable situation from the moral and religious point of view, because indifference, unbelief and blasphemy were widespread and deeply rooted in the life of the people.
