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NO CONFESSIONSFROM MONDAY, OCTOBER 19TO THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22.CONFESSIONS WILL RESUMEON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2026
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Faith After Christendom:
Catholic Identity
and Public Witness
in a Secular Age
What does it mean to live a convincing Catholic faith when Christianity can no longer be taken for granted?
For generations, Christian faith helped shape the culture around us. That is no longer the case in the same way. Today, faith must increasingly be chosen freely, understood more deeply, and lived with intention.
That changing reality is behind the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette and La Salette Retreat Center’s new lecture series, Faith After Christendom: Catholic Identity and Public Witness in a Secular Age. The series does not begin with fear or nostalgia for what once was. Instead, it asks a more pressing question: What kind of faith, and what kind of Christian witness, does this moment call for?
Each gathering includes a keynote talk, coffee, and time for real conversation.
Three questions will guide the series:- Can the Catholic faith remain credible today?
- What is the Church called to become in a post-Christian culture?
- How are Catholics called to live and bear witness in today's world?
These are the questions already shaping the future of the Church.Meet the speakers.
Explore the topics.Reserve your seat.
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bro. guy consolmagno
November 7, 2026
Time: 10:00 am
Welcome Center“When Awe and Wonder Break Through: How Astonishment and Beauty Awaken Faith.”Br. Guy Consolmagno SJ, former Director of the Vatican Observatory, is an American planetary scientist, born in 1952 in Detroit, Michigan. He earned his Bachelor's (1974) and Master's (1975) degrees in Earth and Planetary Sciences from MIT, followed by a Ph.D. in Planetary Science from the University of Arizona in 1978. He held postdoctoral and lecturer positions at Harvard College Observatory and MIT before joining the US Peace Corps in 1983, teaching physics and astronomy in Kenya for two years. Returning to the US in 1985, he became an assistant professor of physics at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania, until entering the Jesuit order in 1989. He took vows as a Jesuit brother in 1991, studying philosophy, theology, and physics.
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MATTHEW (MATT DEBOER)
January 9, 2027
Time: 10:00 am
Welcome Center“Faith Under Fire: Where Is God When It Hurts?”
Matt DeBoer is a Catholic school leader whose life and vocation have been deeply shaped by Catholic education.
Formed in Jesuit education at Creighton University, where he studied history and theology, and later at the University of Notre Dame, Matt has served Catholic schools with faith, courage, and a deep commitment to forming young people as peacemakers.
He now serves as principal of Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, guiding the community through healing and recovery after the tragic school shooting of August 27, 2025, which took the lives of Harper Moyski and Fletcher Merkel. In the face of grief, Matt has called his community to live the African proverb, “When you pray, move your feet,” inviting faith to become action, hope, and courageous witness.
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OUR UPCOMING EVENTS
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2026-2027 Christmas
Festival of Lights"CHRIST, LIGHT OF PEACE"
NOVEMBER 21, 2026
JANUARY 3, 2027
Experience the beauty, joy, and wonder of La Salette’s Christmas Festival of Lights, where more than 1,000,000 lights transform the Shrine into a welcoming celebration of faith, hope, and peace.
Inspired by this year’s theme, “Christ, Light of Peace,” the festival invites families and visitors of all ages to encounter the true meaning of Christmas. Explore the full festival webpage for dates, attractions, and everything you need to plan your visit by clicking the link below.
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TRAVELING STATUE OF
OUR LADY OF LA SALETTESUPPORT THE MISSIONARIES OF OUR LADY OF LA SALETTE
BY PRAYING FOR NEW LA SALETTE VOCATIONSFamilies and individuals are invited to welcome the Traveling Statue of Our Lady of La Salette into their homes for one month. During that time, they commit to praying the Rosary each day for new vocations to the Missionaries and Sisters of Our Lady of La Salette.
If you are interested in hosting the statue and praying for new vocations, please contact:
At the end of the month, the statue is returned during Sunday Mass and entrusted to another family, continuing this prayerful journey from home to home.
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New Bible Study GroupSEPTEMBER - NOVEMBER 20266:00-7:30 PM(Starting on September 15)The best way to enrich one’s relationship with Jesus is to immerse oneself in his WORD and in his community. Consider join us on Tuesday evenings as we delve into Matthew’s Gospel with a fantastic group of adults who want to know more about the man we follow and the God whom we adore. See how Matthew and the Matthean community try to show the Jewish community of his day that Jesus is the long-awaited Messiah by deliberately tying the Hebrew Scriptures to the Good News of Jesus.
Through Matthew’s eyes, see how he structures his gospel with two bookends: the infancy narratives and the passion narrative with five discourses in between to mirror the five books of the Torah, and so much more!
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Sacred Heart FridaysOCTOBER - JUNE 20269:30 AM-1:30 PM(Starting on October 2)Sacred Heart Fridays is a 8-month journey designed to deepen our spirituality of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and allow Christ to gradually mold our hearts after his own.
Inspired this year by Anne Flanagan, FSP’s Come to Me: Living the Nine First Fridays, each gathering will draw from the witness of a saint or another compelling figure of faith. Through biblical reflection, spiritual insight, prayer, and the tradition of the First Fridays, we will explore what it means to live with a heart shaped by the compassion, mercy, courage, and love of Jesus.
More than a devotion to observe, Sacred Heart Fridays is an invitation to transformation: to come closer to the Heart of Christ so that our own hearts may become more like his.
Come to Me: Living the Nine First Fridays is available at the Shrine Gift Shop.
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Aging GratefullyOCTOBER 20-22, 2026"Aging Gracefully," a 3-day retreat facilitated by Fr. Leo LeBlanc, invites participants to reflect on the unique gifts and challenges of life’s third age. The earlier stages of life are often shaped by growth, work, responsibility, and the desire to make a difference. Retirement or semi-retirement opens a new and often unexpected chapter, one that calls us to embrace physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual changes with honesty, creativity, and faith.
This retreat offers time to recognize the gifts that remain, the graces still waiting to be discovered, and the ways God may be calling us to continue growing, serving, and loving. Together, we will ask with hope: Are we ready to believe the best is yet to come?
For more information CLICK HERE
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Christ, Light of Peace
A Men's Winter RetreatJANUARY 8-10, 2027Many men live under constant pressure. There is always something to do, someone to care for, a decision to make, a problem to solve, a responsibility to carry. Work demands your attention. Family needs your presence. Life keeps moving. And slowly, almost without noticing it, your soul can become tired.
You may still believe in God. You may still attend Mass. You may still try to be faithful. But inside, you may feel distracted, dry, restless, distant, or spiritually worn down.
For many men, the hardest thing is not working harder. It is stopping long enough to listen. Not to the noise. Not to the pressure. Not to everyone else’s expectations. But to God.
This retreat is for the man who knows he needs more than another busy weekend. It is for the man who wants to begin the year with greater clarity, deeper faith, and the peace of Christ.
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From Mary's apparition in the fall of 1846 up until modern times, the La Salette mission has been to help all God's people live a spiritually fulfilling and grace-filled life and we sincerely hope that this is what you find here at La Salette.
The La Salette Experience includes the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette and the La Salette Retreat & Conference Center. Whether you attend one of our many Masses, receive the sacrament of Reconciliation, walk our sprawling grounds, attend one of our programs or retreats, or are simply perusing our expansive religious article store, we hope that you feel surrounded by Mary's presence and that you too are charged with the same mission she gave to Maximin and Melanie that day on the top of the Holy Mountain:"Make my message known to all my people."
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