It's Simple
Volume XXI, Number 10 – December 4, 2017
Dear CatholiCity Citizen,
We need your help. I only ask once a year.
It's simple: we need every person reading this message to participate in our annual Christmas Appeal or CatholiCity will cease to exist.
Please don't leave it up to "everybody else." You are everybody else.
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I make the same promise to you every Christmas: no apostolate in America reaches more fallen away Catholics per dollar. Everything we give away is designed to appeal to the lukewarm and fallen away.
Your gift will go toward absolute necessities such as shipping packages, office rent, and manufacturing those powerful tools for evangelization.
I just prayed for you during a holy hour before the Blessed Sacrament. I implored Jesus and his perfect mother to inspire your heart for the sake of the millions of souls who will surf into CatholiCity.com and receive our free CDs, booklets, and books in 2018 and beyond...
...including Marianne Collins's powerful 100-page spiritual autobiography, WOMAN, which is already impacting tens of thousands of souls. The initial print-run cost a lot of money but her free books will help you convert souls nobody else can reach.
Exchange of Gifts – The Fatima Rosary
Our Christmas Appeal has always been a lovely Exchange of Gifts, and our special gift this year is a unique jeweler-quality Rosary I picked out especially for you celebrating the 100-Year Anniversary of Fatima.
As you can see below, it's quite striking. I also want you to have the Our Lady of Guadalupe art-house print and fridge magnet in your home. They also make great Christmas gifts for someone you care about.
Can you take a few minutes to make an online donation today?
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This year we are offering these wonderful gifts:
Art-House Print with Your $33 Gift
You will receive an elegant one-of-a-kind 8x10 art-house print of Our Lady of Guadalupe when you make a donation of only $33 or more. Ready for framing with integrated double matting; there is a place for this image in your home – perhaps in the room of someone who needs to return to the Sacraments?
Fatima Rosary with Your $77 Gift
With your donation of $77 or more, we'll also send you this truly unique Fatima Rosary. Blessed by a priest at the cathedral in downtown Cleveland where I pray for you every day at Mass, I have personally touched each one to my Relic of the True Cross and first class relics (!!!) of Saints Joseph, Anthony, Jude, Therese, Maximilian, and Francis Xavier:
Magnet Set + 2 Rosaries for $111 Gift
In addition to the magnet, art-house print and two Rosaries, we'll send a complete set of "Child Jesus" fridge magnets when you make a donation of $111 or more, also touched to the True Cross and saints relics:
Wood-Framed Print with Your $222 Gift
If you're able to make the sacrifice, we'll send you three Fatima Rosaries, the magnet set, and a wood-framed print when you when you make a donation of $222 or more.
Fridge Magnet with Every Donation
Every donor, regardless of amount, will receive a beautiful 3x4 Our Lady of Guadalupe "fridge" magnet as a powerful daily reminder to pray every time your family members grab a snack or prepare a meal.
(Fatima Rosary No Longer Available)
24 Hour Conversion Tool for Millions
CatholiCity is always there for you, your family, friends, and most importantly, for anyone searching online for the truth -- every minute of every day since 1996.
Twice as many people (many millions) visited our website in 2014-2017 than in 2010-2013 and we expect a lot more in 2018. (They find us through excellent search-engine placement of over 18,000 individual webpages. As just one example: Did you know we have the #1 Catholic Baby Name site in the world?)
Your generosity will ensure that huge numbers of potential converts and fallen-away Catholics will continue to have the opportunity to receive our free life-changing CDs, novels, autobiographies, booklets, audio downloads, newsletter, commentary, links, resources, and online prayers.
And don't forget about my annual one-man pilgrimages to Fatima, Rome, and the Saint Anne and Saint Joseph shrines in Canada to bring your prayer intentions to the holiest places. Miracles, conversions, and healings have occurred.
20 for '18: Monthly Donors Needed
Including overhead (such as rent for our shipping center) it costs around $2 to manufacture, process, package and ship a CD, book, or 10-pack of booklets. Because of our large volumes and unmatched operational efficiency, that is still only a fraction of what it costs other charities and even secular companies.
Can you sacrifice $20 or a multiple of $20 a month to form the "backbone" of our operation? Please consider becoming a monthly credit card donor:
Should You Make a Donation?
Every year I ask: Does God even want you to make a donation? I certainly don't assume He does. I do know this: there is a tendency to assume that everybody else is making a donation. This is simply not true.
I believe some of you are called to make an especially large gift of hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Whether it's $500 or $5,000, whatever your individual situation is, I understand that giving a large gift will require a real sacrifice on your part. "The grace that saves souls never comes cheap," a holy nun once wrote to me. Every $100 lets us print 1,100 Returning to Confession booklets. Your gift will help numerous real people come back to Confession next year.
So please pray and discuss it with your loved ones. Ask Our Lady to guide you.
Of course even a modest gift of $5, $10, or $25 will help us reach our goal.
If you cannot afford to help financially, I understand. Please, pray one Rosary or make one Holy Hour or offer Communion for the success of this year's appeal and for the salvation of every unique visitor to our website and all those who hear or read our materials.
May you and your family have a blessed Advent, a holy Christmas, and a grace-filled 2018. All for Immaculate Mary!
With Saint Joseph,
Bud Macfarlane
Founder and President
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