Resemblance Between the Apparition of Our Lady of La Salette and Christ’s Appearance after De
Our Divine Saviour’s manner of appearing after His death was marked by the singular suddenness of His coming. “When the disciples were gathered together, the doors being shut, for the fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst.”(John XX.,19). The same happened eight days later, when the unbelieving St. Thomas was was with company. “Jesus came and stood in their midst.” The Lady of the Apparition was equally sudden in her coming at La Salette. “Suddenly, without being able to guess how She came there, Maximum and Melanie saw a beautiful Lady, seated near the place where they had been taking their frugal repast.”
The same day of our Divine Saviour’s resurrection, two of His disciples, while on their way to the little village of Emmaus, fell in with a stranger, who accosted them, joined himself to their company, and so interested them in the discourse he held with them as they journeyed together, that they constrained him to remain with them, although he made as if he would go from them on account of the lateness of the hour. In breaking of bread, however, the stranger vanished from their sight, and the two disciples said, “Did not our hearts burn within us as we were on the way with him?” One of the extremely remarkable features of the Apparition of La Salette is the extreme similar character of the interview, as regards its colloquial ease and familiarity, and the concealment of the supernatural splendour of the state of glory. The children appear quite at ease with the Lady after the first surprise was overcome, and yet their hearts are burning with them as the Lady continues net conversation. There is evidently some secret charm at work, for Melanie says when the Lady has disappeared, “Why did we not ask the beautiful Lady to take us with her?”
St. Luke relates of our Lord’s final leavetaking of His disciples, “that when He had said these things, while they looked on, He was raised up, and a bright cloud received Him out of their sight.”(Acts i,9). Maximin and Melanie relate that the Lady of the Apparition was raised up in the air, and that she disappeared slowly in the surrounding brightness, her feet being the last part of her that was seen. Maximin rushed forward to seize her feet, but they had disappeared.
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