Into Your Hands
I love this book. I pick it up frequently and reread pages or chapters or the whole thing.
I love this book. I pick it up frequently and reread pages or chapters or the whole thing.
Our Lady of LaSalette appeared on September 19th, 1846 to two shepherd children in a small town near the French Alps.
Once the cause for sainthood moves forward, the church then has permission to exhume the body.
“This girl needs St. Charbel! He’s going crazy healing physical ailments right now!”
I see so clearly here that Jesus is pleased with her serving, is blessed by her cooking, and is loved intensely by her. She was in the background doing the work that allowed Jesus to work. He was so pleased.
When I really started forming an identity in my faith as an individual, there was a word that was often used that stuck with me from the very beginning.
“Behold this Heart which has so loved men that it has spared nothing, even to exhausting and consuming itself, in order to testify its love.”
So I sat down that afternoon with a plan to go to Confession as soon as I could, and as I began to pray and examine my conscience I was flooded in my heart in a way that I cannot explain with words.
God created us male and female and we are so very different, especially in our needs! There is a brief list from a secular study that we use on our Catholic retreats to give some practical tips.