Earlier I talked about the weather in France and I wasn't sure what the weather is like there this time of year. According to Accuweather, this is what the weather will be like in Grenoble, France (which is 50 miles north of the Our Lady of La Salette pilgrimage site) over the next few days.
I'm really getting excited about the fact that I am now booked in to visit one of the eight official Marian apparitions. A Marian apparition is an event in which the Virgin Mary appears to one or more people. An example of a Marian apparition is when Mary appeared to the two children Maximin Giraud and Melanie Calvat in Our Lady of La Salette. I believe Mary appears to us because she wants to take action on something or deliver a message to us and we as Christians are engaged by the fact of her actually appearing. For the people involved in the apparition, they become drawn by the message and focus more totally on God. Their love for others grows deeper. They become drawn into the cross of Jesus as an everyday reality of Christian life. They are led to live the evangelical poverty of Jesus based on total dependence on God. Personally, I am kind of scared of the idea, but at the same time so fascinated by it.
I'm really getting excited about the fact that I am now booked in to visit one of the eight official Marian apparitions. A Marian apparition is an event in which the Virgin Mary appears to one or more people. An example of a Marian apparition is when Mary appeared to the two children Maximin Giraud and Melanie Calvat in Our Lady of La Salette. I believe Mary appears to us because she wants to take action on something or deliver a message to us and we as Christians are engaged by the fact of her actually appearing. For the people involved in the apparition, they become drawn by the message and focus more totally on God. Their love for others grows deeper. They become drawn into the cross of Jesus as an everyday reality of Christian life. They are led to live the evangelical poverty of Jesus based on total dependence on God. Personally, I am kind of scared of the idea, but at the same time so fascinated by it.
The term Marian apparition relates to visiting
pilgrimage sites because for some of the sites, it is the reason why they are
so well known and it is also the reason we visit them. The Our Lady of La
Salette pilgrimage would not be so significant if a Marian apparition had not occurred
there. Pilgrims all over the world, including myself, visit these pilgrimage
sites to become closer to Mary and God, and seek healing and prayer. For
example, my friend who was terribly sick, visited Our Lady of Fatima because
the Fatima water is supposedly meant to miraculously heal the sick.
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