La Salette Shrine, France- October 2015 News

Autumn Pilgrimage

Walk on the Mountain: October 3-4, Association of the MPP (Walk, Prayer and Sharing) in the shrine organized the last walk of this season. This year the association of MPP has completed 10 years. Hundreds of people came for this program in these years.

Weekend albums Photos: On October 10-11 there was a contest of photos, exposition of photos and albums of pilgrims and sessions on Photography.

Retreat for the Divorced and remarried: “Come to me, all you who labour and are burdened and I will give you rest” (Mt 11: 28-30). A special program was organized for the divorced and remarried couples on October 23 Friday to October 26 Monday.

Anniversaries of Marriage: On Sundays of October many couples came to shrine to celebrate their anniversaries of marriage.

Feast of Rosary: Friday 2 to Sunday 4 October. Month of October was specially remembered as the month of Rosary devotion.

Pilgrimage of the diocese of Annecy. The last big pilgrimage of this season ended with the pilgrimage of the diocese of Annecy on 24-25 October.

6th Annual Film festival on Reconciliation
Different films on this theme were projected and experts on this theme came to speak about it. There was a good participation. The film festival at La Salette is slowly becoming a major event with more participation. There was the presence of Msgr. Pierre-Yeves MICHEL, Bishop of Valence, Krzysztof ZANUZZI, famous film director from Poland, Guido CHIESA, film director from Italy, Nicoletta PONCELET, and Laurent PONCELET other directors from the film industry. There were too specialists like Michèle DEBIDOUR, Michel FARIN, Jean-Luc GADREAU, Marek LIS. The film festival began on Thursday 29 November and concluded Sunday November 1.