Our Lady at La Salette not only reproaches us for faults
against God, but She also deplores the abuse we make of His
own benefits: “I have suffered such a long time for you, who
do not take it into account… You will never be able to repay
the trouble I have taken for you.” If we only knew, indeed, all
the love She has for us, all the favors She obtains for us, all
the misfortunes She removes from us while we think nothing
of it! How many times would divine justice have struck us, if
Mary had not interposed Her motherly Heart!
Let us not harden our hearts any longer, for Mary’s protec-
tion can be both the subject of our sweetest hope and of our
most severe condemnation.
O Mother of Mercy, until now I have not been able to recognize Your
assistance. Without You, I acknowledge it, hell would have been my
home for a long time. I don’t want to be deaf to Your call anymore, it
is enough to tire Your patience and to irritate the justice of Your Son. I
want to be from now on the most faithful and the most grateful of
Your servants.
