The National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette and La Salette Retreat & Conference Center, located in Attleboro, Massachusetts, is pleased to announce a new HYBRID PROGRAM (i.e., in-person or online depending on the participants’ preference), called La Salette Story Time, for children ages 4 to 10.

Once a month, from March to December 2022, from 3-4 pm, EST, interested families have the option to either meet in-personin the Shrine Welcome Center or join in online to listen to an author read from his or her book. Each month a specific theme will be highlighted.

To be held in-person, each session needs at least 10 registered children gathering in the Welcome Center. If there AREN’T at least 10 children attending the event in-person, the session will be held ONLINE ONLY.

All attendees will be eligible for the raffle of the book that will be read that month.

FOR THOSE ATTENDING IN-PERSON AT THE SHRINE.

There will be a parent(s) and child(ren) craft activity, following the Q and A session after the book is read.

Then we will process to the Shrine Church where the Sunday Vigil Mass will be geared toward the children, and 2 of them will be selected to bring up the gifts during the Mass.

THERE IS NO COST TO ATTEND THE PROGRAM.

Prior registration is required for both those joining in-person in the Welcome Center of the National Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette and for those attending the program on line through Zoom. Registration ends 5 days prior to the event.

Each month’s book will be available for purchase in the Shrine’s Religious store or online at www.lasalettereligiousas.org.