From the poetry of the Lebanese cedars to that of the French Alps, Our Divine Father infuses His loving Grace into our hearts and souls. Thank you for sending your chosen one to us in this majestic setting. It is ever changing, yet everlasting. We live in the hope that we too, in our ever changing existence will someday join you in everlasting exaltation.

Lord, you have taught us so much. You keep us steady when we entrust ourselves to those to whom you have given the grace of surgical healing. You fill us with faith in our scientists, doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers, computer technicians, dieticians and so many others. God our Divine Father through our faith in You we have faith in your creatures. We sustain ourselves with the grace of Faith that keeps us in trust of our brothers and sisters in the great communion of saints.

It took nineteen centuries to make her cry. At La Salette, she broke down. Mary, dear mother, we are here to help. Teach us how to do it. We are here for you. Fill our hearts with the courage to help you stand again with the same courage that you showed on Calvary.

When we forget the Rock, bad things happen. We can fill our lives with exotic belongings, but without the Rock success does not visit us. Fortunately, our Rock is more than granite. Our living God finds ways and our neighbors to come to our and intercede for us, buying us a little more time and providing us with the care that we need to bear the fruit that is expected of us by the ONE who planted us.